Guy M. Kirwan

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Guy Maxwell Kirwan (born May 17, 1968 ) is a British ornithologist .

Life

Kirwan grew up in the north west of England and has been an avid bird watcher since the late 1970s . From 1987 to 1990 he graduated from the University of East Anglia in Norwich , England, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history and English. From 1991 to 1993 he worked in Turkey, where he conducted field studies on endangered ducks and geese on behalf of the Dogal Hayati Koruma Dernegi (DHKD, Society for the Protection of Nature in Turkey) . In 1998 a research project at DHKD took him to central Turkey. In 2008, The Birds of Turkey published a book about the avifauna in Turkey. In 1994 he founded the Neotropical Bird Club . Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of the club journal Cotinga and since 2006 member of the editorial board of the second club magazine Neotropical Birding . From 1996 to 2004 he was editor of Sandgrouse , the journal of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East (OSME). Since 2004 he has been editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . For the third volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World , he wrote the family chapter on the golden snipe (Rostratulidae) in 1996 . Since 2006 he has been a research fellow in the ornithological department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Since 2013 he has been one of the editorial supervisors of the online project HBW Alive .

Research work

2005 Kirwan established the genus Eremopsaltria for the Mongolian bullfinch ( Eremopsaltria mongolicus , synonym : Bucanetes mongolicus ). In 2006 he described the Tapaculo species Scytalopus notorius , which is now considered a synonym for the gray mouse Tapaculo ( Scytalopus speluncae ). In 2010 he split the Socotra buzzard ( Buteo socotraensis ) from the eagle buzzard ( Buteo rufinus ). In 2011, he and Hadoram Shirihai described the basalt wheatear ( Oenanthe warriae ) from Syria and Jordan. In 2014 he described the subspecies Suiriri suiriri burmeisteri of the gray- headed olive tyrant . In 2015 he described the great gray owl ( Strix hadorami ) together with Manuel Schweizer and José Luis Copete . That same year he split the Zypernzwergohreule ( Otus Cyprius ) from the scops owl ( Otus scops ab). After a genetic study lasting several years, Kirwan and his colleagues came to the conclusion in 2016 that the hooded monkey ( Sporophila melanops ) , which had been considered extinct since 1823, is not a valid species, but probably a hybrid .

Works (selection)

  • The Birds of the Hotamış Marshes , 1993
  • A Guide to the Birding Hotspots of Northern Israel (with Hadoram Shirihai , James P. Smith and Dan Alon) Israel Ornithological Center, SPNI, Tel Aviv, 2000
  • A Guide to the Birding Hotspots of Southern Israel (with Hadoram Shirihai, James P. Smith and Dan Alon) Israel Ornithological Center, SPNI, Tel Aviv, 2000
  • Raptor Migration in Israel and the Middle East , 2000 (with Hadoram Shirihai, Reuven Yosef, Dan Alon and Reto Spaar)
  • Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse: A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails, and Sandgrouse of the World , 2002 (with Steve Madge and Philip McGowan )
  • The Birds of Turkey , 2008 (with Kerem Boyla, Peter Castell, Barbaros Demirci, Metehan Özen, Hilary Welch and Tim Marlow)
  • A Birdwatchers' Guide to Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Caymans , 2010 (with Arturo Kirkconnell and Mike Flieg)
  • Cotingas and Manakins , 2011 (with Graeme Green)
  • HBW and BirdLife Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volume 2 (Passerines) , 2016 (with Josep del Hoyo , Nigel Collar , David A. Christie , Andrew Elliott, Lincoln DC Fishpool and Peter Boesman)
  • Birds of the West Indies , 2019 (with Anthony Levesque, Mark Oberle and Christopher J. Sharpe)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirwan, GM & Gregory, SMS (2005) A new genus for the Mongolian Finch Bucanetes mongolicus (Swinhoe, 1870). British Ornithologists' Club 125: 68-80.
  2. ↑ Raposo, Marcos A .; Stopiglia, Renata; Loskot, Vladimir & Kirwan, Guy M. (2006). The correct use of the name Scytalopus speluncae (Ménétriés, 1835), and the description of a new species of Brazilian tapaculo (Aves: Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) . Zootaxa 1271: 37-56.
  3. ↑ Maurício, GN; Bornschein, MR; Vasconcelos, MF; Whitney, JF; Pacheco, JF; Silveira, LF (2010). Taxonomy of “Mouse-colored Tapaculos”. I. On the application of the name Malacorhynchus speluncae Ménétriès, 1835 (Aves: Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae). Zootaxa 2518: 32-48
  4. ^ Porter, RF & Kirwan, GM (2010) Studies of Socotran birds VI. The taxonomic status of the Socotra Buzzard. British Ornithologists' Club 130 (2): 116-131.
  5. ↑ Kirwan, GM, Steinheimer, FD, Raposo, MA & Zimmer, KJ (2014). Nomenclatural corrections, neotype designation and new subspecies description in the genus Suiriri (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Zootaxa 3784 (3): 224-240.
  6. ↑ Kirwan, GM, Schweizer, M. & Copete, JL (2015). Multiple lines of evidence confirm that Hume's Owl Strix butleri (AO Hume, 1878) is two species, with description of an unnamed species (Aves: Non-Passeriformes: Strigidae). Zootaxa 3904 (1): 28-50.
  7. ↑ Peter Flint, David Whaley, Guy M. Kirwan, Michael Wink: Reprising the taxonomy of Cyprus Scops Owl Otus (scops) cyprius, a neglected island endemic In: Zootaxa 4040 (3): 301–316, 2015 doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa .4040.3.3
  8. ↑ Juan Ignacio Areta, Vítor de Q. Piacentini, Elisabeth Haring, Anita Gamauf, Luís Fábio Silveira, Erika Machado, Guy M. Kirwan: Tiny Bird, Huge Mystery - The Possibly Extinct Hooded Seedeater (Sporophila melanops) Is a Capuchino with a Melanistic Cap. In: PLOS ONE , May 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kirwan, Guy M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirwan, Guy Maxwell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1968