Graham S. Cowles

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Graham Stewart Cowles (* 1931 ) is a British ornithologist and paleornithologist .

Life

Cowles joined the Bird Department of the Natural History Museum in London in January 1949 as an assistant . From January 1950, he served for two years in the United Kingdom Armed Forces . In 1961 he accompanied Peter Colston on an expedition to Andalusia and from 1962 to 1963 and in 1965 Cowles was involved in expeditions to Australia, which were funded by the Australian zoologist and philanthropist Harold Wesley Hall (1888-1964). From 1971 the bird collection was transferred to the Natural History Museum at Tring and curated by Colston and Cowles. In January 1977 he was appointed senior research fellow. After Ian Courtney Julian Galbraith's retirement in 1985, he became chief curator of the bird collection until he retired in late June 1991.

Cowles described the 1964 Rußbauchsäbler ( Pomatostomus halli ) and 1980 subspecies Todiramphus chloris kalbaensis the collar Liests . In 1994 the Reunion goose ( Alopochen kervazoi ) and the Reunion hawk ( Falco duboisi ) followed.

In 1974 Cowles took part in an expedition of the British Ornithologists' Union to Réunion . During the investigation of the Caverne Vergoz near La Saline and a coastal cave near Saint-Paul after bird finds, he collected fragments of the extinct tortoise species Cylindraspis inepta .

In 1970 he published the book Birds (Instructions for Collectors) in collaboration with Colin James Oliver Harrison (1926-2003 ) . In 1974 Cowles wrote the chapter Timaliidae - Quail-thrushes & Babblers in Pat Hall's book Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions 1962-1970 . He described his extensive research work on subfossil bird species of the Mascarene in 1987 in the chapter The fossil record in the work Studies of Mascarene Island Birds by Anthony W. Diamond .

Dedication names

Julian P. Hume named the Rodrigues-Bülbül ( Hypsipetes cowlesi ) in honor of Graham Cowles in 2015 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julian P Hume: A new subfossil bulbul (Aves: Passerines: Pycnonotidae) from Rodrigues Island, Mascarenes, south-western Indian Ocean , Ostrich, 86: 3, 2015, pp. 247–260, doi: 10.2989 / 00306525.2015.1067651
personal data
SURNAME Cowles, Graham S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cowles, Graham Stewart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ornithologist and paleornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931