Clive F. Mann

Clive F. Mann (* 1942 in Essex ) is a British ornithologist .

Life

After graduating from Colchester Royal Grammar School, Mann studied at University College London from 1961 , where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology and anthropology in 1964 . He then moved to Makerere University in Kampala , Uganda , where he received the Diploma of Education. From 1965 to 1975 he taught in schools in Uganda and Kenya . In addition, he devoted himself to ornithological field studies , for which he published numerous papers on population dynamics , breeding and moulting cycles , zoogeography and migration . In 1976 Mann returned to London, where he studied Polytechnic Taxonomy at Central London and graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1979 . In 1980 he was part of the team of authors who wrote Birds of East Africa , the region's first definitive bird checklist. After a PhD at the City of London Polytechnic , he was in 1984 with a dissertation on the taxonomy of passerines to Ph.D. PhD. From 1981 to 1991 he taught at the Science College, Brunei on the island of Borneo . In the lowlands - dipterocarp - mixed forests of Brunei, he carried out field studies and Vogelberingungsprojekte what (eg. In the publication of various ornithological work and notes A checklist of the birds of Brunei Darussalam (1987)) and in 2008 in the publication of the book The Birds of Borneo: culminating in an annotated checklist . In 1991 he accompanied an expedition of the Royal Geographical Society into the forest of Belagong in Brunei, about which he wrote The avifauna of the Belalong forest, Brunei Darussalam in 1996 . Mann has been a freelance writer since 1996. In 2001 he published the book Sunbirds: A Guide to the Sunbirds, Spiderhunters, Sugarbirds and Flowerpeckers of the World with Robert A. Cheke and in 2012 the work Cuckoos of the World with Johannes Erritzøe . In 2008, in collaboration with Cheke, he wrote the family chapters on nectar birds and mistletoe-eaters in Volume 13 of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

In the 1980s he was a member of the steering committee of the British Ornithologists' Club (BOC) for four years . In the 1990s and 2000s he worked as a trustee for another five years and as chairman of the BOC from 2001 to 2005. He was also chairman of the Trust for Oriental Ornithology.

literature

• Clive F. Mann: Author's Biography In: The Birds of Borneo: an annotated checklist , British Ornithologists' Union 2008, ISBN 978-0-90744-628-6 , S. X (short biography)

Web links

• LinkedIn profile
• Literature by and about Clive F. Mann in the WorldCat bibliographic database