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,https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/658462 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians,https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ah/article/view/1699/1699 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. 400 pp. . Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 592 pp. . Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 244 pp. . Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 624 pp. .
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