Charles Heineken

Charles Heineken (died 4 January 1830), also known as Carlos Heineken, was an English medical doctor and ornithologist.

He lived on Madeira, a Portuguese island in Macaronesia, from 1826 until his death.

He described the Trocaz pigeon, a Madeiran endemic bird species.

[1][2] He is commemorated in the scientific name of a subspecies of blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla heineken.

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