Edgardo Moltoni

Edgardo Moltoni (5 June 1896 — 12 January 1980) was an Italian ornithologist who worked in the Natural History Museum at Milan.

He worked at the museum collections for nearly fifty eight years and was the author of a four volume treatise on the birds of East Africa.

Moltoni was born in Oneglia, Liguria and studied natural sciences at the University of Turin and became an assistant to the chair in zoology and vertebrate anatomy at Sassari in 1920.

In 1922 he moved to the natural history museum in Milan where he took charge of the collection of birds bequeathed by Ercole Turati.

In 1943, the museum was damaged heavily in an air raid and the collections were reorganized after the war along with Bruno Parisi, the director.