Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Lewis Carroll. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
I put it to you that Lewis Carroll populated his verse and prose with many avian and semi-avian portmanteaux (or portmantanimaux? justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com
Welcome to the Lewis Carroll Society Website The Lewis Carroll Society was formed in 1969 with the aim of encouraging research into the life and works of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/
About Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there" www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice1d.html