 An open access online biography of Derscheid has been translated into English.Professor Derscheid was European secretary for the International Committee for Bird Protection and was awarded the medal of the "Société d’Acclimatation de France".He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and of the U.S. National Audubon Society, a corresponding fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union, an honorable life member of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia and member of the Avicultural Society (U.K.).