Before revision: It was named after the zoologist Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, who first remarked upon this phenomenon in 1833 in a review of covariation of climate and avian plumage color.Gloger (1833) Erwin Stresemann noted that the idea was already expressed by Pallas in Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica (1811).Stresemann (1975) Gloger found that birds in more humid habitats tended to be darker than their relatives from regions with higher aridity.
After revision: It was named after the zoologist Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, who first remarked upon this phenomenon in 1833 in a review of covariation of climate and avian plumage color.Gloger (1833) Erwin Stresemann noted that the idea had been expressed even earlier by Peter Simonlater Pallas in Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica (1811).Stresemann (1975) Gloger found that birds in more humid habitats tended to be darker than their relatives from regions with higher aridity.