page_title: Richard Bowdler Sharpe
section_title: British Museum catalogues
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Bowdler Sharpe / Publications / British Museum catalogues
caption_attribution_description: Paradisaea decora
context_page_description: Richard Bowdler Sharpe was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several monographs on bird groups and produced a multi-volume catalogue of the specimens in the collection of the museum. He described many new species of bird and also has had species named in his honour by other ornithologists including Sharpe's longclaw and Sharpe's starling.
caption: Books of birds by Bowdler Sharpe: Male birds-of-paradise like Paradisaea decora compete for mates with elaborate patterns and displays developed by sexual selection.
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