Zéphirin Gerbe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zéphirin Gerbe

French naturalist

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1810

Place of Birth: Bras, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1890

Profession: naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810 in Bras – 26 June 1890 in Bras) was a French naturalist.
He was the first to discover the pattern of wing taxis, the absence (diastataxis) or presence (eutaxis) of the fifth secondary in birds.He was co-author of Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe with countryman Côme-Damien Degland (second edition, 1867).
He also published a French translation of Alfred Brehm's Illustrirtes Thierleben with the title La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal (4 volumes).Species he described include Gerbe's vole.