Jennifer F. M. Horne

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Jennifer Felicity Mary Horne (died 5 October 2008 in Nanyuki, Kenya) also known as Jenny Horne or after her marriage as Jennifer Horne-Short, was a Kenyan ornithologist and bioacoustician.

During a

Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker for a short time in 1986/87 (since declared likely extinct). Jennifer Horne was a member of BirdLife International. Together with Lester L. Short she wrote the chapter of the toucans, barbets and honeyguides in the Handbook of the Birds of the World
(Volume 7) and the book Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides: Ramphastidae, Capitonidae and Indicatoridae.

Publications (selected)

  • Groves C.P., R.J. Andrew & J.F.M. Horne (1974). Tana river colobus and mangabey. In: Oryx: 12(5): 565–575.
  • Short, L.L., J.F.M. Horne & C. Muringo-Gichuki (1990). Annotated Check-list of the Birds of East Africa. Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology 4(3): 61–246.
  • Short, L.L. & J.F.M. Horne (2005). The avifauna of an upland seasonal woodland in central Kenya: ecology, behaviour, breeding. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 53: 1–80.
  • Horne, J.F.M. (1987). Vocalisations of the endemic land birds of the Mascarene Islands. In A.W. Diamond (ed.), Studies of Mascarene Island Birds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK in 1987. Pp. 101–150.
  • Short, L.L., R. Schodde & J.F.M. Horne (1983). Five-way hybridization of Varied Sittellas Daphoenositta chrysoptera (Aves: Neosittidae) in Central Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 499–516.
  • Short, L.L. & J.F.M. Horne (2002). Family Indicatoridae (Honeyguides) In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal (eds), Handbook of birds of the World, Vol. 7. Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Lynx Editions, Barcelona. pp. 274–295.

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