Brian Gill

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Brian James Gill (born December 10, 1953 in London ) is a British-New Zealand zoologist and author of non-fiction books on the New Zealand fauna .

Life

Gill is the son of Charles James and Jean Hutchison Gill, née Simpson. He has lived in New Zealand since 1961. From March 1972 he completed a zoology degree at Massey University in Palmerston North , which he graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science. As of March 1976, he studied at the University of Canterbury , where he in December 1979 with a thesis Breeding of the gray warbler with special reference to brood-parasitism by the shining cuckoo under the direction of John Warham (1910-2010) for Ph.D . received his doctorate. From February 1980 to November 1981 the postdoctoral phase followed at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland in Brisbane . His research project was on the collective breeding of gray-crowned sabers in the semi-arid zone in southeast Queensland .

From May 1982 to December 2013 he was the curator of terrestrial vertebrates at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland . On the natural history collections of the Auckland Museum, he wrote the books The Owl that Fell from the Sky and The Unburnt Egg in 2012 and 2016 . Other well-known works by Gill include New Zealand's Extinct Birds from 1991 and the Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand from 2010. He has also contributed to New Zealand Geographic , Forest and Bird and Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum .

In 2009 he wrote the chapter on the Maori panties (Acanthisittidae) in the ninth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

Gill is a member of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand . From 1985 to 1991 he was on the committee there.

In 2003, Gill was among Erstbeschreibern of Okaritokiwis ( Apteryx rowi ) and he described the subfossil subspecies Corvus antipodum pycrafti the extinct Maori Crow . In 2007 he was, along with Leslie Christidis and Walter E. Boles, one of the first descriptors of the Notiomystidae family, which was established for the stinging bird ( Notiomystis cincta ). In 2011, Gill was one of the first to describe the fossil turtle species Eochelone monstigris from the Eocene . In 2013 he was part of a team of scientists who placed three New Zealand bird species of the genus Mohoua in their own family Mohouidae.

Fonts (selection)

• Collins Hand Guide to Frogs and Reptiles of New Zealand, Collins, 1986, ISBN 978-0-00217-570-8
• A flying start: Commemorating fifty years of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, 1940-1990, Random Century in association with Ornithological Society of New Zealand Inc., 1990, ISBN 978-1-86941-080-3
• New Zealand's Extinct Birds, Vintage New Zealand, 1991, ISBN 978-1-86941-125-1
• New Zealand Frogs and Reptiles, David Bateman Ltd., 1996, ISBN 978-1-86953-264-2
• The Kiwi and Other Flightless Birds, Alan Bateman, Ltd., 1999, ISBN 978-1-86953-392-2
• New Zealand's Unique Birds, Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd., 1999, ISBN 978-0-79000-681-9
• Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica, Te Papa Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-87738-559-9
• The Owl that Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator, Awa Press 2012, ISBN 978-1-87755-113-0
• The Unburnt Egg: More Stories of a Museum Curator, Awa Press 2016, ISBN 978-1-92724-929-1

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography at Researchgate
• Short biography at Awa Press

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zachary Aidala, Nicola Chong, Michael G. Anderson, Luis Ortiz-Catedral, Ian G. Jamieson, James V. Briskie, Phillip Cassey, Brian J. Gill & Mark E. Hauber: Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Mohoua, endemic hosts of New Zealand's obligate brood parasitic long-tailed cuckoo (Eudynamys taitensis) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 154 , no. 4 , 2013, p. 1127-1133 , doi : 10.1007 / s10336-013-0978-8 .