Michael Watkins is a British shipbroker and zoologist. He is known for his books about the eponyms of species.
Watkins is co-author of the books Whose Bird?: Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds, The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians, and The Eponym Dictionary of Birds.
The book Whose? Bird details more than 4,000 people who have been commemorated with common names of birds and was originally conceived as a method of raising money for the Disabled Birders Association.
Publications
- Beolens, B. & Watkins, M. 2003. Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds. Eastbourne, United Kingdom: Gardners Books.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2009. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2013. The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2014. The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
References
- ^ Morrison, David (January 2014). "Review". Systematic Biology.
- ^ Velmala, William (July 2015). "A book of names – of birds and people:". Ornis Fennica.
- Sandwith, Margaret (2004). "Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins". Journal of African Ornithology.
- https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/658462
- https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ah/article/view/1699/1699