Jules Bourcier

Who was Jules Bourcier?

Jules Bourcier was a French naturalist.

Bourcier was an expert on hummingbirds, and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant. The following hummingbird species bear his name:

Colibri De Bourcier, described by Bourcier in 1847.

Phaethornis bourcieri, described by René Primevère Lesson in 1832.

Bourcier was the French consul to Ecuador from 1849 to 1850. In 1857 he became a corresponding member of the "Société linnéenne de Lyon".