Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut

Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut

Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut (18 October 1920, Paris – 17 March 2007, Paris) was a French ornithologist.

His bird collections are held by Muséum de Toulouse. The Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut egg collection includes all the Palearctic species (Europe, North Africa and Asia), that is to say approximately 1,000 species and nearly 15,000 eggs and is one of the most complete and best documented palearctic egg collections in Europe.

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