Pyrrhura caeruleiceps pantchenkoi Phelps, WH Jr. 1977 (1 Viewer)

[Taphrospilus]

Pyrrhura caeruleiceps pantchenkoi Phelps, WH Jr. 1977 OD Una nueva especie y dos nuevas subespecies de aves (Psittacidae, Furnariidae) de la Sierra de Perijá cerca de la divisoria Colombo-Venezolana', Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales, 33(134): 43-53, 1977 (not seen)

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Pantchenko's Conure Pyrrhura picta pantchenkoi W. H. Phelps Jr, 1977 [Alt. Painted Parakeet; Synonymised with Pyrrhura caeruleiceps by some authorities]
Georges Pantchenko (d.2003) was a Venezuelan member of the joint Venezuelan/Brazilian team responsible for establishing the border between the two countries. They did this by descending from helicopters into the jungle and literally hacking 'landmarks' to delimit the boundary. He was working for the Commission (1957) when he was lost in the jungle for a time. He was asked at a conference in Brasília about his surname and is reported to have replied in humorous vein 'My parents are Russian, I was born in Bulgaria, grew up in France, have Venezuelan nationality but my heart is Brazilian!'.

The Key to Scientific Names

Dr. Georges Pantchenko (d. 2003) of the Venezuelan Border Administration (subsp. Pyrrhura caeruleiceps).

When he was in Bulgaria is still the question to answer.

 

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(not seen)

From https://books.google.com/books?id=m_fRAAAAMAAJ&q=pantchenko

En 1974 y 1975 el Dr. Georges Pantchenko, jefe del grupo venezolano de la Comisión Mixta Colombo-Venezolana Demarcadora de Límites invitó a la Colección Phelps a enviar taxidermistas para coleccionar ejemplares de la avifauna en las inmediaciones de los puntos fronterizos que se iban a establecer entre los dos países, [...].

ETIMOLOGIA : Me complace sobremanera dedicar esta subespecie al Dr. Georges Pantchenko, quien durante diez años ha hecho importantes contribuciones al conocimiento de la avifauna venezolana, colaborando con la Colección Ornitológica Phelps al hacer posible la obtención de especímenes en las regiones más remotas de nuestras fronteras.

The bird was described as Pyrrhura picta pantchenkoi.

His first name is also sometimes written Jorge. In several documents on the Web, he is called an astrónomo.