Hi Joy. This is Daniel Bastaja. I didn't see Fran's posting on this subject,
but here is yet another excerpt from www.birdingfaqs.com
I believe Steller has the added distinction of being the only naturalist to
have ever seen and described Alaska's giant flightless cormorant
(Phalacrocorax perspicillatus) before it became extinct around about the
middle of the 19th century.

Regards,
Daniel B.
In 1725, Russian Czar Peter the Great hired a Danish born navigator, Vitus
Jonasen Bering, to explore and chart the northeast coast of Siberia and
present day Alaska. Bering made two expeditions and accompanying him on his
second voyage, begun in 1733, was a German naturalist by the name of George
Wilhelm Steller. Steller wrote a scientific account of the different
animals encountered by the expedition, and in recognition of his pioneering
work in this part of the world, the Steller's Jay was named in his honour.
He has two other birds named after him (the Steller?s Eider and the Steller?
s Sea Eagle) as well as two mammals (the Steller?s Sea Lion and the Steller?
s Sea Cow, a now extinct far northern relative of the Manatee).

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Hello Fran and all;
Thanks Fran for the correction on spelling Steller's and the good info. It
is interesting to know the history behind the name.
Joy
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