[Bristol-Birds] ornithologists with ties to BBC involved in AOU check-list supplement
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:06:19 -0400
Two ornithologists, who have close ties with and have participated
in activities of the Bristol Bird Club, have made major contributions
to the recent supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union
Check-List of North American Birds. This is the official decisions
and announcements regarding the names and classification of
North American birds.
James Van Remsen of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana
State University, is a member of about a dozen prominent American
ornithologists who serve on the AOU's Committee on Classification
and Nomenclature-North and Middle America.
Rob Moyle, son of BBC members John and
Polly Moyle, has significant papers published
which were cited by AOU in making its
decisions. Rob is an Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, along with the Natural History
Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
at the University of Kansas. He is the assistant
curator in the area of systematic ornithology.
Kansas has one of the best university
ornithological collections in America. Rob
took part in the 2004 Bristol Christmas Bird
Count. He was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow with the American
Museum. His father is a Vice-President of BBC and Rob's parents live
at Kingsport. Rob grew up in New York state.
Rob was several times cited in the supplement. He was also cited
as the lead author on the following papers referenced by AOU:
Moyle, R. G., R. T. Chesser, R. O. Prum, P. Schikler, and J. Cracraft.
2006. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of Old World
suboscine birds (Aves: Eurylaimides). American Museum Novitates
3544:1-22.
Moyle, R. G., R. T. Chesser, R. T. Brumfield, J. G. Tello, D. J.
Marchese, and J. Cracraft. 2009. Phylogeny and phylogenetic
classification of the antbirds, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, and allies
(Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariides). Cladistics 25:386-405.
Nirschl, R., and R. Snider. 2010. First record of Bare-throated
Remsen, a leading North American ornithologist and highly respected
in the field of classification and nomenclature, has participated in
several BBC Christmas bird counts and also was a featured speaker
for BBC, presenting a eulogy to his friend Roger Tory Peterson on
the day and at the time of Peterson's funeral in Olde Lyme, Conn.
It was a BBC invitation field trip at Musick's Campground on South
Holston Lake and the eulogy was offered under a pine tree at the
campground while a large group of area birders attended.
FIFTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN
ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH
AMERICAN BIRDS summarizes decisions made
between 1 April 2010 and 15 April 2011 by the AOU's
committee. The paper appears in the The Auk which is published
this month.
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