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    Heinrich Gätke (born 19 May or 19 March 1814 in Pritzwalk – died 1 January 1897 in Heligoland) was a German ornithologist and artist. The son of a baker...
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    of migration. The book Heligoland, an Ornithological Observatory by Heinrich Gätke, published in German in 1890 and in English in 1895, described an astonishing...
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    Alexander Harvie-Brown as well as a visit to Heligoland at the home of Heinrich Gätke. In 1877 he joined Joseph Wiggins to Siberia. He was one of the first...
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    the "Dalmatian Regulus" Regulus modestus. The German ornithologist Heinrich Gätke, who moved to the then-British island of Heligoland in 1837 and stayed...
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  • Fritsch Daniel and Geo Fuchs David Füleki Yishay Garbasz Wolfgang Ganter Heinrich Gätke Isa Genzken Sigfried Giedion Willi Glasauer Mathias Goeritz Ekkeland...
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    Heinrich Gätke begins to study birds on Heligoland Louis Hippolyte Bouteille publishes Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou description des oiseaux observés dans...
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    for 2020-2030 (green line) Pritzwalk is twinned with: Winsen, Germany Heinrich Gätke (1814–1897), ornithologist Hermann von Grauert (1850–1924), historian...
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    Heligoland, a German island in the North Sea, where he continued the work of Heinrich Gätke (who died in 1897) in bird migration studies, setting up the bird observatory...
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    birds and eggs. He visited, for instance, Heligoland, where he met Heinrich Gätke, of whom he would write an obituary in The Zoologist in 1897. In 1863...
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    bird specimens for collectors and museums. Ornithologist and artist Heinrich Gätke first visited the island in 1837 and moved there permanently in 1841...
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