Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan (24 August 1698 – 20 December 1764) was a Danish author, a Lutheran bishop of the Church of Norway, a historian, and an antiquarian...

of seeming to plow the sea. Some of the synonyms of krake given by Erik Pontoppidan were, in Danish: horv (horven) – harrow søe-horv (søe-horven) – sea-harrow...

curlew sandpiper was formally described in 1763 by the Danish author Erik Pontoppidan under the binomial name Tringa ferrugineus. It is now placed with 23...

it lifts itself up like a column from the water. Norwegian Bishop Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) did not disbelieve the existence of sea serpents themselves...

it the scientific name Halsydrus pontoppidani (Pontoppidan's sea-snake) in honor of Erik Pontoppidan, who described sea serpents in a work published...

was formally described and illustrated in 1763 by the Danish bishop Erik Pontoppidan under the binomial name Colymbus aalge. The type locality is Iceland...

short-eared owl was formally described in 1763 by the Lutheran bishop Erik Pontoppidan under the binomial name Strix flammea. The specific epithet is from...

michahellis Vega gull, L. vegae Armenian gull, L. armenicus L. a. argentatus – Pontoppidan, 1763, the nominate form, sometimes known as the Scandinavian herring...

proportions like 1/4th to 1/3rd "bark flour" to the remaining grain flour. Erik Pontoppidan, the bishop of Bergen, Norway in the mid-18th century, recommended...

Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae Genus: Calidris Species: C. falcinellus Binomial name Calidris falcinellus (Pontoppidan, 1763) Synonyms Limicola falcinellus...