Colin M. Miskelly

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Colin M. Miskelly (born December 18, 1962 ) is a New Zealand ornithologist .

Life

Miskelly's father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a nurse . At the age of 13 he became a member of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand . In 1983 he received a Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Scholarship. From November 1983 to January 1984 he was part of a team of conservationists alongside Don Merton who managed to witness a successful breeding season of the Chatham flycatcher ( Petroica traversi ) on the island of Rangatira . During this period, the total stock was doubled from nine to 18 copies. In 1985 Miskelly received a Bachelor of Science degree with a summa cum laude from the University of Canterbury . After a PhD at the same university, he was in 1989 with a thesis on Social and Environmental Constraints on Breeding by New Zealand Snipe Coenocorypha aucklandica for Ph.D. PhD.

Miskelly was a nature conservation advisor, technical support employee and nature conservation analyst at the Department of Conservation (DOC) from February 1991 to May 2010 , including a DOC representative on the board of the Karori Sanctuary Trust from 1998 to 2010. He then moved to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa , where he became curator of the vertebrate department and was the driving force behind the creation of the New Zealand Birds Online website, launched in 2013 . Eleven main authors, over a hundred other contributors and over 250 photographers are involved in this digital encyclopedia , in which all bird species in New Zealand ( recent or extinct) are recorded.

Miskelly's main focus is on the New Zealand snipe ( Coenocorypha ). In 2002, a revision of the genus carried out in collaboration with Trevor H. Worthy led to an elevation of the former subspecies Coenocorypha aucklandica iredalei , Coenocorypha aucklandica huegeli and Coenocorypha aucklandica barrierensis to species status. In 2010, he and Allan J. Baker (1943–2014) described the subspecies Coenocorypha aucklandica perseverance of the Auckland snipe from the Campbell Islands . 2018 he was one of a team of scientists that the endangered diving petrel -Art Pelecanoides whenuahouensis from the island Codfish Iceland erstbeschrieb . This taxon was originally considered to be a population of the broad-billed guillemot ( Pelecanoides georgicus ).

Miskelly wrote numerous articles for the journal Notornis , including Birds of the Western Chain, Snares Island 1983–1984 (1984), Birds of the Solander Islands (1986), The Identity of the Hakawai (1987), Breeding ecology of Snares Island Snipe ( Coenocorypha aucklandica huegeli) and Chatham Island Snipe (C. pusilla) (1999), Historical records of snipe from Campbell Island, New Zealand (2000), Discovery of a previously unknown Coenocorypha snipe in the Campbell Island group, New Zealand subantarctic (2005) and Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2008 (2008). In 2008 he edited the book Chatham Islands: Heritage and Conservation .

literature

  • Who's who in Australasia and the Far East , 1st edition, International Biographical Center, 1989, ISBN 0-94887-505-4 , p. 394

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trevor H. Worthy, Colin M. Miskelly & Bob (R.) A. Ching: Taxonomy of North and South Island snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Coenocorypha), with analysis of a remarkable collection of snipe bones from Greymouth, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 29: 3, 2002, pp. 231-244
  2. ↑ CM Miskelly, AJ Baker: Description of a New Subspecies of Coenocorypha Snipe from Subantarctic Campbell Island, New Zealand. Notornis 56 (3), 2010, pp. 113-123
  3. ↑ Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan JD Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Rosalind Cole, Johanna H. Hiscock, Graeme A. Taylor and Heiko U. Wittmer. 2018. Analyzes of Phenotypic Differentiations Among South Georgian Diving Petrel ( Pelecanoides georgicus ) Populations Reveal An Undescribed and Highly Endangered Species from New Zealand. PLoS ONE. 13 (6): e0197766. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0197766
personal data
SURNAME Miskelly, Colin M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1962