Frank Gill

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Frank Bennington Gill (born October 2, 1941 in New York City ) is an American ornithologist with worldwide research interests and experience in bird watching .

Live and act

Gill grew up in Teaneck , New Jersey . At the age of seven, his interest in birds was sparked when his grandfather, Frank Rockingham Downing , showed him a song bammer at a bird bath.

After gaining his Ph.D. in 1969 in Zoology from the University of Michigan , he joined the ornithology department of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia . His dissertation was entitled Intra-insular variation in the Mascarene White-eye, Zosterops borbonica (Aves) . From 1969 to 1995 he was a full-time employee of the academy, where he held various positions during his tenure. These included the chairmanship of the Department of Ornithology and the Vice-Presidency of the Department of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology. Gill also made a significant contribution to establishing the Academy of Natural Sciences as one of the leading ornithological research centers in the United States. These included his work as founding director of the VIREO (Visual Resources for Ornithology) program, launched in 1979, and his encyclopedia Birds of North America, Life Histories for the 21st Century , which is also available online on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website . In 1988, Gill was awarded the Eisenmann Medal of the Linnaean Society of New York . Since 1996 he has been working as a research assistant for the Academy of Natural Sciences.

From 1998 to 2000, Gill was President of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). In 1998 he received the AOU's William Brewster Medal "for his research and incredible service to birds and the ornithological society" . He is also an elected member of the International Ornithological Congress , where, alongside Pamela C. Rasmussen and David Brewer, he was editor-in-chief of the IOC World Bird List until 2020 . Gills to famous works are Ornithology (1990, 1994 and 2006) and Birds of the World: Recommended English Names , in collaboration with 2006 Minturn Tatum Wright III was born

In 1996, Gill became Senior Vice President and Director of Science of the National Audubon Society , a position he held until 2004. In 2007 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Audubon Society, where he works as a senior ornithologist.

literature

  • William Edwin Davis, Jerome A. Jackson: Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology , Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1995. p. 21, ISBN 978-1-877973-36-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birds of North America Online
  2. ↑ The Auk, Vol 116, No. 1, 1999 Brewster Award Memorial Award, 1998 (PDF; 80 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Gill, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gill, Frank Bennington; Gill, Frank B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City