Zlatozar Boev

(Professor DSc)

phone: (+359 87) 8668880; e-mail:

Born: 20 October 1955, Sofia.
Education: Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (1980).
Speciality: zoology.

Research interests

Palaeornithology; archaeornithology; evolution of birds and palaeoavifaunas; bone and external morphology of birds; disappearance and extinction of avian taxa; history of zoology, ornithology, palaeontology and natural science collections.

list of avian taxa described by Zlatozar Boev [*.PDF]

Current projects

Manual for identification of the wing phalanx (phalanx proximalis digiti majoris) of European birds. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences — National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Joint Project (2023—2025)

Terminologia ornithologica bulgarica. Part II. Morphologia (2025—2026)

Terminologia theriologica taxonomica bulgarica (2024—2025)

The importance of political, economic, and cultural factors in solving fundamental ornithological problems (A case study for Bulgaria) (2025—2026)

The contribution of Knud Andersen in the study of the world’s chiropterofauna (2025)

Most recent publications

Mlíkovský, J., Boev, Z. N., 2025. Type specimens of recent birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 77 (3): 415—418. https://doi.org/10.71424/azb77.3.002878 [PDF]

Milosevic, S., Boev, Z., Dimitrijevic, V., Mihailovic, D., 2025. Early fowlers of Europe: evidence for bird exploitation during MIS 8/7 from Velika Balanica cave (Serbia). — Quaternary International, 738 (2025) 109868: 1—9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109868

Gwee, Ch. Y., Tassoni, L., Boev, Z., Tomek, T., Bochenski, Z. M., Talamo, S., Wolf, J. B. W., 2025. Performance of Two Custom Probe Kits for In-Solution Enrichment of Ancient Avian DNA. — Molecular Ecology Resources, 0:e70071: 1—14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.70071 [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Woodland Birds from Neolithic Settlements in Bulgaria. — Diversity, 17, 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17020107 [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Terminologia theriologica taxonomica bulgarica. Illustrated trilingual dictionary of the mammals of the world. English — Latin — Bulgarian. — National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 462 pp. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Terminologia ornithologica bulgarica. Vol. I. Taxonomia. Illustrated trilingual dictionary of the birds of the world. English — Latin — Bulgarian. Part 2. Passeriformes. — National Museum of Natural History — Bulgarian Ornithological Society, Sofia, 508 pp. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Terminologia ornithologica bulgarica. Vol. I. Taxonomia. Illustrated trilingual dictionary of the birds of the world. English — Latin — Bulgarian. Part 1. Non-Passeriformes. — National Museum of Natural History — Bulgarian Ornithological Society, Sofia, 432 pp. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Specimens of the globally extinct Slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. — Larus, 60: 65—69. https://doi.org/10.21857/ygjwrce15y [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Bulgarian taxonomic terminology of birds and mammals (Aves et Mammalia — Vertebrata, Animalia). — Terminological Bulletin, 8: 193—200. https://doi.org/10.37919/2221-8807-2025-8-17 [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2025. Birds from Chalcolithic Settlements in the Plains of Bulgaria. — Quaternary, 8, 10: 1—11. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8010010 [PDF]

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