Charles Payraudeau

Benjamin Charles Marie Payraudeau studied with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744–1829) at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

On this expedition he discovered Audouin's gull and a (now) subspecies desmarestii, of the European shag.

He described them in Deux espèces nouvelles d'oiseaux, appartenant aux genres Mouette et Cormoran published in "Revue Annales de Sciences Naturelles" (Paris, 1826, tome 8, p. 460-465).

He also wrote "Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annélides et des mollusques de l'île de Corse" (1826).

[2] His entire ornithological collection is conserved as a museum in the Mairie of La Chaize-le-Vicomte in Vendée.