Roberto Raul Dabbene (17 January 1864– 20 October 1938) was an Italian-Argentine ornithologist.
Born in Turin, he studied at the University of Turin and received a doctorate in 1884 from the University of Genoa and moved to Argentina in 1887. After teaching chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, he moved to Buenos Aires in 1890 where he was inspired to study birds by Dr. E. L. Homberg who made him a member of the zoo staff. He studied the Argentine birds for over 40 years, and became curator of birds at the National Museum and writing many of the most important books on the subject. He was a founder of the journal El Hornero.[1][2]
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- ^ Aguilar, H. A. (2009). "Roberto Dabbene, "el patriarca de los pájaros"" (PDF). El Carnotaurus. Boletin del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (in Spanish). 10 (106): 6–7.