26-620: R. r. radjah (Lesson, RP, 1828) R. r. rufitergum ( Hartert , 1905) Tadorna radjah The radjah shelduck ( Radjah radjah ), is a species of shelduck found mostly in New Guinea and Australia , and also on some of the Moluccas . It is known alternatively as the raja shelduck , black-backed shelduck , or in Australia as the Burdekin duck . The specific name radjah
52-402: A German zoologist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an ornithologist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild , FRS (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was
78-763: A member of the Rothschild family . As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration , which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Mandatory Palestine . Rothschild was the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926. Walter Rothschild was born in London as the eldest son and heir of Emma Louise von Rothschild and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild , an immensely wealthy financier of
104-563: A pamphlet in 1900 in which he supported the control of house sparrows. In 1930, Hartert retired to Berlin , where he died in 1933. Hartert had been a mentor to Erwin Stresemann , whose cremated remains were interred at Hartert's grave in 1972. Among the written publications of Ernst Hartert are: A species of lizard, Hemiphyllodactylus harterti , and 12 birds are named in his honor. [REDACTED] Media related to Ernst Hartert at Wikimedia Commons This article about
130-541: Is about 30 days. Ernst Hartert Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist . Hartert was born in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert in Frankfurt am Main , Germany, with whom he had a son named Joachim Karl (Charles) Hartert, (1893–1916), who
156-513: Is from the Moluccan name Radja for the radjah shelduck on the island of Buru in Indonesia. Formerly placed in the genus Tadorna , it differs markedly from other members in external morphology and mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data, suggesting its status should be reinvestigated. Current classification places it in its own monotypic genus Radjah . Both the male and female of
182-652: The Moluccas in eastern Indonesia . In Australia, its primary range is coastal, tropical northern Australia, extending as far south as central Queensland , west through the upper regions of the Northern Territory (including Kakadu National Park ) to the Kimberley in Western Australia . The radjah shelduck is listed as a protected bird in all the states of Australia, and penalties are enforced for harming or disturbing them. The species prefers
208-533: The taxonomy of birds and butterflies. Although Rothschild himself travelled and collected in Europe and North Africa for many years, his work and health concerns limited his range and beginning while at Cambridge he employed others (explorers, professional collectors and residents) to collect for him in remote and little-known parts of the world. He also hired taxidermists, a librarian and, most importantly, professional scientists to work with him to curate and write up
234-769: The British government declared its support for the establishment in Palestine of "a national home for the Jewish people". The letter became known as the Balfour Declaration . Walter inherited the British peerage title " Baron Rothschild " from his father Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild in 1915. He died in 1937 at Tring Park, Hertfordshire , aged 69, and was buried in Willesden Jewish Cemetery , London. He had no legitimate children and his younger brother Charles Rothschild had predeceased him, so
260-485: The age of seven, he declared that he would run a zoological museum and, as a child, he collected insects , butterflies and other animals. Among his pets at the family home in Tring Park were kangaroos and exotic birds. As a boy, Rothschild was once dragged off his horse and assaulted by workmen while on a hunting ride near Tring, an experience he attributed to antisemitism . At 21, he reluctantly went to work at
286-465: The family bank, N M Rothschild & Sons in London . He worked there from 1889 to 1908. He evidently lacked any interest or ability in the financial profession, but it was not until 1908, at the age of 40, that he was finally allowed to give it up. However, his parents established a zoological museum as a compensation and footed the bill for expeditions all over the world to seek out animals. Rothschild
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#1732772997721312-558: The international Rothschild financial dynasty and the first Jewish peer in England. The eldest of three children, Walter was deemed to have delicate health and was educated at home. As a young man, he travelled in Europe, attending the University of Bonn for a year before entering Magdalene College, Cambridge . In 1889, leaving Cambridge after two years, he was required to go into the family banking business to study finance. At
338-536: The largest natural history collections in the world and was open to the public. In 1932, he was forced to sell the vast majority of his bird collection to the American Museum of Natural History after he had been blackmailed by a former mistress. In 1933, he was one of eleven people, involved in the appeal that led to the foundation of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), an organization for
364-407: The largest zoological collection ever amassed by a private individual. The Rothschild giraffe ( Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi ), a subspecies with five ossicones instead of two, was named after him. Another 153 insects, 58 birds, 17 mammals, three fish, three spiders, two reptiles, one millipede and one worm also carry his name. Rothschild opened his private museum in 1892. It housed one of
390-437: The months of January and February. They nest close to their primary food source, often in the hollow limbs of dead or dehydrated trees, which makes habitat destruction a particular issue. The radjah shelduck does not use nesting materials apart from some self-supplied down feathers. Egg-laying is usually completed by May or June, but depends on the extent of the wet season . The clutches range from 6 to 12 eggs. Incubation time
416-551: The quarterly museum periodical Novitates Zoologicae (1894–39) with Rothschild, and the Hand-List of British Birds (1912) with Francis Charles Robert Jourdain , Norman Frederick Ticehurst and Harry Forbes Witherby . He wrote Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna (1910–22) and travelled in India , Africa , and South America on behalf of his employer. Although Hartert supported the conservation of some species of birds, he wrote
442-400: The resulting collections: Ernst Hartert , for birds, from 1892 until his retirement at the age of 70 in 1930 and Karl Jordan for entomology, from 1893 until Rothschild's death in 1937. At its largest, Rothschild's collection included 300,000 bird skins, 200,000 birds' eggs, 2,250,000 butterflies and 30,000 beetles as well as thousands of specimens of mammals, reptiles and fishes. They formed
468-649: The salty waters of mangrove flats and paperbark tree swamps, but will visit all manner of brackish and freshwater swamps , lagoons , lakes , estuaries , river deltas , and billabongs further inland during the wet season. The radjah shelduck forms long-term, bonded pairs, and they are usually encountered in lone pairs or small flocks. During the rainy season, the males commonly become very irritable, and have been observed attacking their mates. The ducks' preferred diet consists mainly of mollusks , aquatic or other insects, worms, aquatic weeds, sedge materials and algae . Pairs start searching for nesting sites during
494-463: The species are mostly white, with dark wing-tips and a distinctive "collar" of dark feathers. When viewed from above, during flight or with wings outstretched, green bands are visible on the tops of their wings. To communicate, the female utters a harsh rattle while the male emits a breathy, "sore-throat" whistle. The radjah shelduck inhabits the mangrove forests and coastline of New Guinea ( West Papua and Papua New Guinea ) and Australia, and some of
520-830: The study of birds in the British Isles. On his death in 1937, his museum and all of its contents were given in his will to the British Museum (of which the Natural History Museum, London was then a part), the greatest accession that the institution has ever received. The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring is now a division of the Natural History Museum. Following a visit to Hungary in 1902, Rothschild brought six live edible dormice ( Glis glis ) back to Tring . Some of them escaped and started breeding successfully in
546-657: The title was inherited by his nephew (Nathaniel Mayer) Victor Rothschild . Furthermore, he also inherited the title "Baron de Rothschild" ( Freiherr von Rothschild ) of the Austrian nobility , which was an authorized title in the United Kingdom by Warrant of 27 April 1932. In 1838, Queen Victoria had authorized the use of this Austrian title in the United Kingdom. Rothschild is the author of around 765 publications. Of these 27 were co-authored with Ernst Hartert and 16 with Karl Jordan. He published 278 articles in
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#1732772997721572-461: The wild. They have now become a localized pest over an area of approximately 200 square miles in a triangle between Luton, Aylesbury and Beaconsfield, and there are estimated to be at least 10,000 of them. Even though considered an invasive species , they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 . Rothschild was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Giessen in 1898,
598-470: Was 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall, suffered from a speech impediment and was very shy, but he had his photograph taken riding on a giant tortoise and drove a carriage harnessed to four zebras to Buckingham Palace to prove that zebras could be tamed. Though he never married, Rothschild had two mistresses, one of whom bore him a daughter. Rothschild studied zoology at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Meeting Albert Günther sparked his interest in
624-518: Was a captain from July 1902 until he was promoted to major in 1903 before retiring in 1909. As an active Zionist and a close friend of Chaim Weizmann , he worked to formulate the draft declaration for a Jewish homeland in Palestine . On 2 November 1917, he received a letter from the British foreign secretary , Arthur Balfour , addressed to his London home at 148 Piccadilly . In the letter,
650-689: Was elected a Trustee of the British Museum in 1899 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911. Walter Rothschild was a Liberal Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Aylesbury from 1899 until he retired from politics at the January 1910 general election . Despite his health, Rothschild served part-time as an officer in a Territorial Army unit, the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry , where he
676-590: Was killed as an English soldier on the Somme. Together with his wife, he was the first to describe the blue-tailed Buffon hummingbird subspecies ( Chalybura buffonii intermedia Hartert, E & Hartert, C, 1894). The article On a collection of Humming Birds from Ecuador and Mexico appears to be their only joint publication. Hartert was employed by Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild as ornithological curator of Rothshild's private Natural History Museum at Tring , in England from 1892 to 1929. Hartert published
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