Antonio Schembri (ornithologist)
Antonio Schembri was a Maltese ornithologist.
Antonio Schembri was a shipping agent. He wrote, in Italian, Catalogo Ornitologico del Gruppo di Malta which is the first scientific checklist of the birds of Malta and also Quadro Geografico Ornitologico Ossia Quadro Comparativo dell’Ornitologia di Malta, Sicilia, Roma, Toscana, Liguria, Nizza ela Provincia di Gard. In Quadro Geografico he compared the range and breeding habitats of the birds of Malta, Sicily, Rome, Tuscany, etc. in a tabular list. He also published, in Bologna, Vocabolario dei Sinonimi Classici dell’ Ornitologia Europea. He was a friend and correspondent of Luigi Benoit and a contributor to Camillo Róndani's Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus.
