He was born in San Antonio de Maturín, a town located in Monagas, Venezuela. Along with his father, William Henry Phelps, he founded the first commercial radio station in Venezuela, 1 Broadcasting Caracas.
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After finishing his studies at Lawrenceville School and getting a BSc in 1926 from Princeton University, he published over 78 books on the birds of Venezuela with his wife Katherine Deery Phelps, in which they described their discovery of more than 200 new species. Together they organized about 100 expeditions that helped collect over 1,000 species of birds. A direct result of his research was the creation of the Venezuelan Museum of Ornithology with one of the most important libraries and collections in South America. In recognition of his research the University of Exeter created a fellowship in his honor to fund Venezuelan graduate students interested in zoology. In 1953 he founded one of the most important Venezuelan television stations, Radio Caracas Televisión, and served as its president for 34 years. He died in the city of Caracas.
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Las aves de Perijá Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1944
Resumen de las colecciones ornitológicas en Venezuela Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1945
Contribución del Dr. Frank M. Chapman à la ornitología venezolana Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1946
Descripción de cuatro aves nuevas de los cerros Paraque y Ptri-Tepui y notas sobre Bubulcus ibis, Myioborus cardonal y Platycichla leuocops Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1946
Descripción de seis aves nuevas de Venezuela y notas sobre veinticuatro adiciones à la avifauna del Brasil Caracas: Tipografía La Nación, 1948
Notas sobre aves venezolanas Caracas: Tipografía El Compás, 1948
Las aves de Bonaire Caracas: Tipografía La Nación, 1951
Las aves de las islas Los Roques y Las Aves y descripción de un nuevo canario de mangle Caracas: Tipografía La Nación, 1951
El posible hundimiento parcial de isla de Aves Caracas: Litografía del Comercio, 1953
Las aves de la isla de Patos, con algunos documentos sobre la historia y la geología de la isla Caracas: Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales, 1958
La aves de la isla La Orchila Caracas: Editorial Sucre, 1959
Cuarenta y nueve aves nuevas para la avifauna del cerro Uei-Tepui (Cerro del Sol) Caracas: Editorial Sucre, 1962
Lista de las aves de Venezuela con su distribución 2nd ed. Caracas: Editorial Sucre, 1963
(with Ramón Aveledo Ostos) Dos nuevas subespecies de aves (Troglodytidae, Fringillidae) del cerro Marahuaca, territorio Amazonas Caracas Editorial Sucre, 1984
Kathleen de Phelps. "Memorias de misia Kathy : primera Expedición Phelps al "Cerro Jimé," actual Cerro de la Neblina, enero-febrero, 1954". (Caracas : Tecniproven 1986) ISBN980-265-446-9.
External linksedit
Vuilleumier, Francois. "In Memoriam: William H. Phelps Jr". The Auk. 107 (1): 181–183.
Clemencia Rodner & Margarita Martínez (Phelps Ornithological Collection Caracas), March 2006. . VIIIth Neotropical Ornithological Congress, 2007. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
January 01, 1970
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