Michael Watkins is a British shipbroker and zoologist.
He is known for his books about the eponyms of species.
Watkins is co-author of the books Whose Bird?
: Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds,[1][2][3] The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals,[1][4] The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles,[1] The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians,[1][5] and The Eponym Dictionary of Birds.
details more than 4,000 people who have been commemorated with common names of birds and was originally conceived as a method of raising money for the Disabled Birders Association.