Zlatozar Boev

(Professor DSc)

phone: (+359 87) 7089048; e-mail:

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

Vertebrates Department

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

Action plan for conservation of Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus in Bulgaria. Bulgarian society for the protection of birds (2009—2018)

Urgent measures to secure survival of the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) in Bulgaria and Greece. LIFE10/NAT/BG/000152, Programme LIFE+ of the European Commission (2013—2014)

Zooarchaeological study of the ‘Forum Serdica’ based on the remains of vertebrates from the center of Sofia (4—19 BC) (2015—2018)

The Aurochs (Bos primigenius Bojanos, 1827) (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) in the Nature and Culture of Bulgaria

‘Thracians — Genesis and Ethnic Development, Cultural Identities, Civilization Interactions and Heritage of Antiquity’ — Study of animal osteological materials (wild and domestic) from Neolithic to Late Middle Ages in order to search for continuity

Late Pleistocene avifauna of the Pešturina Cave (Nišava District, SE Serbia)

History of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Most recent publications

Boev, Z., Todorov, O., 2019. The avian collection of the former Saint Augustine College of the Regional Natural History Museum in Plovdiv. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 35: 1—11. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2019. Late Antiquity (3-5 century A.D.) Fauna from Building Excavations on Exarch Joseph Street (Sofia City, Bulgaria). — Bulletin of the Natural History Museum — Plovdiv, 4: 1—8. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2019. Past distribution of Monachus monachus in Bulgaria — subfossil and historical records (Carnivora: Phocidae). — Lynx, n. s. (Praha), 49: 163—176. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2019. The Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto Frivaldszky, 1838) — a subrecent invasive species of the avifauna of Bulgaria (subfossil records). — ZooNotes, 141: 1—3. [PDF]

Боев, З., 2019. Неизвестни миниатюри на граф Амеде Алеон във фондовете на Националния природонаучен музей при БАН. — Природа — БАН, 1: 110—112. [PDF]

Боев, З., 2019. Чаплите — тези древни съвършени риболовци. — Природа — БАН, 1: 86—94. [PDF]

Plachiyski, D., Popgeorgiev, G., Avramov, S., Boev, Z., 2018. The Balkan Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus rudolfi Dombrowski, 1912 (Galliformes: Phasianidae): Distribution History and Current Status in Bulgaria. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 70 (1): 101—111. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2018. The National Museum of Natural History in the years around the World War II (1942—1947). — Journal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 4: 35—40. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2018. The Moths of the Nigth. — Osem, 9: 104—111. [PDF]

Boev, Z., 2018. The Wise Delicacy. — Osem, 8: 110—117. [PDF]

— More complete list of publications — section e-Natura | Staff publications