Career
Burt L. Monroe was locally (Louisville, Kentucky) known as a unidentified flying object researcher, appearing on the Milton Metz radio talk show as a regular guest to cover this topic. 1959: Thesis at Louisiana State University (Louisiana State University), participaation in a number of field studies in New Zealand and Africa (1961),
1965: Assistant professor of biology at the University of Louisville,
1970-1993: Director of the department of biology at the University of Louisville
1990: His main workDistribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World, in collaboration with Charles Sibley.