Lamm, Donald Wakeham

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Biographical History

Donald Wakeham Lamm (1914-1996), ornithologist, was born on September 14, 1914 in Washington D.C. He traveled to many countries to study birds, including Japan, Brazil, Australia, Mozambique, and Ghana. He wrote several papers on the distribution, abundance, and natural history of birds in Brazil, Ghana, Mozambique, Australia, Mexico, and Columbia. He spent most of his career as a diplomat in the U.S. State Department, where he worked until 1964. After retiring, he continued to study birds until his death on December 2, 1996.

Source

See In memoriam: Donald Wakeham Lamm, 1914-1996 by Steven M. Speich published in 1999 by The Auk, vol. 116, no. 3, pp. 818: http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v116n03/p0818-p0818.pdf

Related entities

United States. Department of State: He was a diplomat in the U.S. State Department.

Birth Date

1914

Death Date

1996

Topic

  • Animals
  • Birds

Form/Genre

Personal name

Occupation

Ornithologists