James V. Remsen

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James Vanderbeek "Van" Remsen junior (born September 21, 1949 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American ornithologist. His research focus is the neotropical avifauna .

Life

At the age of five, Remsen developed his passion for the outdoors and at eleven he was an avid bird watcher. In 1967 he made his high school Accounts at the Phillips Academy in Andover , Massachusetts . In the summer of 1968 he worked at the Denver Wildlife Research Center. In 1971 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in biology from Stanford University , where among others Harold A. Mooney , David F. DeSante and Paul R. Ehrlich were his mentors. In 1978 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Frank A. Pitelka with his dissertation Geographical ecology of Neotropical Kingfishers. PhD in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley . In the same year he became curator of the ornithological collection of the Natural History Museum of Louisiana State University .

In 1977, while studying at Berkeley, Remsen published an article in the American Birds journal entitled On taking field notes , which had a strong influence on many American bird watchers in the decades that followed.

To design a standardized classification and nomenclature of the neotropical avifauna, Remsen sent a proposal to the American Ornithologists' Union in 1997 to create a South American counterpart to the already well-known AOU Check-list Committee , which covers the avifauna of the western hemisphere from Panama and north to the Caribbean covers. In 1999, the proposal for the establishment of the South American Classification Committee (SACC) was approved and in October 2000 the first classification (via the splitting of the striped-necked pampa chicken ( Rhynchotus maculicollis ) from the red-winged pampa chicken ( Rhynchotus rufescens )) was available online.

In 2003 Remsen wrote the chapter on the family of the potter birds (Furnariidae) in the eighth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

In 2005 Remsen co-authored a high-profile article in the journal Science announcing the rediscovery of the ivory woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis ).

Taxa described by Remsen

In 1981 he described a subspecies of the black-throated thistle tail ( Asthenes harterti bejaranoi ) for science.

In 1984 he published a new subspecies of the Marcapata tree slip ( Cranioleuca marcapatae ), which has had species status since 2016 and was given the common name Vilcabamba tree slip ( Cranioleuca weskei ).

In 1993 he described a new species with the Vilcabambabuschammer ( Atlapetes terborghi ).

In 1996 he and Orlando H. Garrido described the subspecies Margarops fuscatus klinikowskii of the pearl-eye mockingbird .

In 1998 he and Robb Thomas Brumfield were the first to describe the subspecies Cinnycerthia fulva gravesi and Cinnycerthia fulva fitzpatricki of the Sepia Wren .

Appreciations and dedication names

In 2013 Remsen was awarded the William Brewster Medal of the American Ornithologists' Union for his services to research into the South American avifauna . In 1994 the endangered chestnut belly kotinga ( Doliornis remseni ) from Colombia and Ecuador was named after Remsen. In 2017, the new genus name Remsenornis was proposed for the black- fronted tangerine ( Pipraeidea bonariensis ).

Works (selection)

  • An Annotated List of the Birds of Bolivia (with Melvin Alvah Traylor junior), 1989
  • Community Ecology of Neotropical Kingfishers University of California Publications in Zoology, Vol. 124, 1996
  • Studies in Neotropical Ornithology Honoring Ted Parker In: Ornithological Monographs Vol. 48, American Ornithologists' Union, 1997
  • Festschrift for Ned K. Johnson: Geographic Variation and Evolution in Birds (with Carla Cicero). In: Ornithological Monographs Vol. 63, American Ornithologists' Union, 2007
  • Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Vol. 1: Non-passerines (with Edward C. Dickinson), 4th revised edition, 2013
  • Birds of Bolivia (with Sebastian K. Herzog, Juan Ignacio Areta, Víctor Hugo García Solíz, José Antonio Balderrama Torrico, Alex E. Jahn, Aidan Maccormick, Ross MacLeod, Ryan Terrill, Julián Quillén Vidoz), Asociación Armonía, Bolivia, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bruce MacNelly (Ed.): Entry by James Vanderbeek Remsen Jr. In: 1967 Pot Pourri Phillips Academy , Andover, Mass., P. 104
  2. ↑ a b The American Ornithologists' Union: William Brewster Memorial Award, 2013: JV (“Van”) Remsen, Jr. In: The Auk, 130 (4): 819-820.
  3. ^ A b J. V. Remsen, Jr .: The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithologists' Union: a new classification of the birds of South America In: Neotropical Birding , July 13, 2007, pp. 21-23
  4. ^ Proposal (1) to South American Classification Committee Elevate Rhynchotus maculicollis to species rank
  5. ↑ John W. Fitzpatrick, Martjan Lammertink, M. David Luneau, Tim W. Gallagher, Bobby R. Harrison, Gene M. Sparling, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh, Elliott CH Swarthout, Peter H. Wrege, Sara Barker Swarthout, Marc S. Dantzker, Russell A. Charif, Timothy R. Barksdale, JV Remsen, Scott D. Simon, Douglas Zollner: Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) Persists in Continental North America . In: Science . tape 308 , no. 5727 , June 3, 2005, ISSN  1095-9203 , p. 1460–1462 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1114103 ( sciencemag.org ).
  6. ↑ James Vanderbeek Remsen: Schizoeaca-Harterti-Bejaranoi New-Subspecies With Notes On Taxonomy And Natural History Of Schizoeaca Aves Furnariidae . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 96 , no. 4 , 1981, p. 1068-1075 ( online [accessed February 3, 2016]).
  7. ↑ James Vanderbeek Remsen: Geographic Variation, Zoogeography, and Possible Rapid Evolution in Some Cranioleuca Spinetails (Furnariidae) of the Andes . In: The Wilson Bulletin . tape 96 , no. 4 , 1984, pp. 515–523 (English, online [PDF; 559 kB ; accessed on February 3, 2016]).
  8. ↑ James Vanderbeek Remsen: Zoogeography and geographic variation of Atlapetes rufinucha (Aves: Emberizinae), including a distinctive new subspecies, in southern Peru and Bolivia . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 106 , no. 3 , 1993, p. 429-435 ( online [accessed February 3, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Orlando H. Garrido, James Vanderbeek Remsen: A new subspecies of the Pearly-eyed Thrasher Magarops duscatus (Mimidae) from the island of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 116 , no. 2 , 1993, p. 75-80 ( online [accessed February 3, 2016]).
  10. ↑ James Vanderbeek Remsen, Robb Thomas Brumfield: Two New Subspecies Of Cinnycerthia Fulva (Aves: Troglodytidae) From The Southern Andes . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 111 , no. 4 , 1993, p. 429-435 ( online [accessed February 3, 2016]).
  11. ↑ Mark B. Robbins, Gary H. Rosenberg, Francisco Sornoza Molina: A New Species of Cotinga (Cotingidae: Doliornis) from the Ecuadorian Andes, with Comments on Plumage Sequences in Doliornis and Ampelion . In: The Auk . tape 111 , no. 1 , January 1994, pp. 1–7 (English, online [PDF; 620 kB ; accessed on January 31, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Vitor de Q. Piacentini: A new genus for the Blue-and-yellow Tanager (Aves: Passeriformes): a suggested adjustment to the classification of the Thraupidae . In: Zootaxa . tape 4246 , no. 2 , June 2017, p. 293-300 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4276.2.11 .
personal data
SURNAME Remsen, James V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Remsen, James Vanderbeek junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey