Career
He made early studies of the birds of Pomerania. Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer at first dedicated himself to agriculture on the family farm, where he began to make scientific observations and establish a collection. He corresponded with many European ornithologists, and through further collecting and purchase built up an important collection of European bird species.
He undertook several expeditions with Alfred Brehm to the Lower Danube.
On his death his collection of 20,000 bird specimens was given to the Braunschweig Natural History Museum. Eugen von Homeyer wrote over 150 articles on birds and was the first describer of the semi-collared flycatcher and the Cyprus wheatear.
