Boardman Conover

Henry Boardman Conover (January 18, 1892 – May 5, 1950)[1] was an American soldier, salesman, and amateur ornithologist.

In 1920, he traveled to Venezuela with Wilfred Hudson Osgood on a collecting trip for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

The trip inspired him to leave business and devote himself to ornithology,[3] and they returned to South America in 1922, visiting Chile and Argentina.

He made a large number of contributions to Carl Eduard Hellmayr's The Catalogue of Birds of the Americas.

[1] Conover was a member of the advisory council of Peabody Museum of Natural History, a trustee of the Chicago Zoological Society, and a fellow of the American Ornithologists Union.