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Nicholas Aylward Vigors (Old Leighlin, condado de Carlow, 1785 – 26 de outubro de 1840) foi um zoólogo e político irlandês. Vigors estudou no Trinity College, em Oxford. Serviu no exército durante a Guerra Peninsular 1809-1811 e retornou para Oxford, graduando-se em 1817.
Painting, oil on canvas, of a toucan by Vigors, 1831. Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician. He popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the quinarian system.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors, ganet d'an 12 a viz Kerzu 1785 e Sean Leithgleann (Kontelezh Ceatharlach) ha marvet d'ar 26 a viz Here 1840 e Londrez , a oa ul loenoniour hag ur politikour iwerzhonat
Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840) was a co-founder of the Zoological Society of London in 1826, and its first Secretary until 1833. In 1833 he founded what became the Royal Entomological Society of London. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Society.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward, an eminent zoologist, was born at Old Leighlin, near Carlow, in 1787. He was educated at Oxford, where he published, in 1810, An Enquiry into the Nature and Extent of Poetic Licence.
Vigors was a ‘quinarian’, believing in the geometric ordering of species, orders and families into sets of five. He employed his quinarian approach to overhaul the classification of birds. He wrote extensively on birds, mammals and insects in the Zoological Journal, which he edited from 1827 – 1834.
19 de dez. de 2023 · Vigors, N.A. 1825. Sketches in ornithology; or, observations on the leading affinities of some of the more extensive groups of birds. On a new genus of Psittacidae.
