James Clements

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James Franklin Clements (born October 31, 1927 in New York City , New York , † June 9, 2005 in Oceanside , California ) was an American ornithologist .

Life

Clements spent most of his childhood at the Graham School Orphanage in Hastings-on-Hudson . At the age of 15 he joined the merchant marine and when he entered adulthood he began his service on an aircraft carrier off the Philippines. He then completed post-secondary education at Beloit College , Wisconsin, and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota . During the Korean War , he served in the United States Air Force . In 1952 he moved to California with his wife and two sons, where he became a partner in the George Rice & Sons printing company. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from California Western University. PhD. The work on his dissertation formed the basis for the first edition of the popular Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World, which appeared in 1974. Four more editions followed in 1978, 1981, 1991 and 2000, which were published during Clements' lifetime. After his death in 2005, the CornellLab of Ornithology published the sixth and final print edition of the Clements Checklist in 2007. Updates to the Clements Checklist have been published online by the CornellLab of Ornithology since October 2007 and as eBird / Clements Checklist since September 2012.

In 1986, Clements was named Honorary Consul for the State of California by Hastings Kamuzu Banda , then President of the Republic of Malawi . After retiring in 1988, Clements founded Ibis Publishing , where he edited a number of books, including Handook of Waterfowl Identification by Clements and Frank S. Todd (1997), Natural History of Waterfowl by Frank S. Todd (1997) , A Field Guide to the Birds of Peru by Clements and Noam Shany (2001), A Field Guide to the Birds of Yap Island (2003) by Clements and Ornamental Trees for Mediterranean Climates, the Trees of San Diego by Steve Brigham (2005) .

Clements has funded several companies in Ecuador, Peru, and Baja California. In 1989 he raised money for the Schreiber Hall of Birds at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County , where he set a new record for bird watchers with 3,662 species . Clements was president of the San Diego Natural History Museum and the Explorers Clubs of Los Angeles and San Diego.

Clements died on June 9, 2005 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at Tri-City Hospital in Oceanside, California.

Dedication names

In 2005, Bret M. Whitney and José Alvarez Alonso named the Iquitos mosquito catcher ( Polioptila clementsi ), endemic to Peru, in honor of James Clements.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bret M. Whitney, José Alvarez Alonso: A new species of Gnatcatcher from white-sand forests of northern Amazonian Peru, with revision of the Polioptila guianensis complex The Wilson Bulletin Vol. 117 No. 2, 2005, pp. 113-127
personal data
SURNAME Clements, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clements, James Franklin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2005
Place of death Oceanside , California