Craig R. Robson

Craig Richard Robson (born April 16, 1959 ) is a British ornithologist and director of bird exploration tours .

Life

Robson dropped out of school at the age of 16. For six months in 1985 and six months in 1989 he worked under the direction of Mike Blackburn as an assistant at the RSPB Strumpshaw Fen Reserve , where he gained practical experience in reed belt and wet meadow management , among other things . He has been a freelance ornithologist since 1989.

Robson devoted himself to the study of wild birds and wildlife during the numerous trips, expeditions, and numerous birding tours he had undertaken abroad (mainly in Asia ) that spanned a period of 30 years.

From January to March 1984 he was involved in BirdLife International sponsored water bird counts and bird ringing projects at the Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary and Lake Chilika in India . From March to June 1984 he was involved in a Birdlife International-sponsored survey on endangered pheasants and other wild birds in northern Pakistan . From April to September 1987 he worked on a search expedition for the gold throated pitta in Thailand . From April to July 1988, from December 1989 to March 1990 and from April to July 1991, he toured Vietnam , where he took part in survey studies on endangered pheasants and other wild birds.

From 1985 Robson worked temporarily as a bird and  wildlife illustrator. In 1988 he was part of the illustrator team for the work Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives by Richard Grimmett , Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp. In the same year he illustrated Carol Inskipp's book A Birdwatchers' Guide to Nepal . In 1990, in collaboration with Norman Arlott, he designed the distribution maps for the Important Bird Areas in Europe work by Richard Grimmett and TA Jones.

Robson has also been a bioacoustic specialist since 1985 . He recorded the birdcalls of nearly 1,100 Asian bird species, most of which are copies in the National Sound Archive.

In 1991 he became a senior tour manager at the ecotourism company Birdquest.

In 2000 Robson's book A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and in 2002 the book A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand was published . In 2007 he wrote the family chapter on the parrot's beaks (Paradoxornithidae) and, with Nigel Collar, the family chapter on the timalia in the twelfth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

In 1995 Robson was one of the first to describe the subspecies Fulvetta danisi bidoupensis of the bamboo warbler and in 2009 to the first to describe the karst warbler ( Phylloscopus calciatilis ).

Dedication names

In 2002 Jonathan Charles Eames named the subspecies Lioparus chrysotis robsoni of the golden warbler from Vietnam in honor of Craig Robson. 2006 Nigel Collar established the genus Robsonius from the grass warbler family (Locustellidae).

Web links

• Profile at the bird song database Xeno-Canto
• Curriculum Vitae (as of 2011)
• Literature by and about Craig R. Robson in the WorldCat bibliographic database