John Patton O'Neill

John Patton O'Neill (born April 12, 1942 in Houston , Texas ) is an American ornithologist and bird illustrator . His research focus is the avifauna of Peru .

Life

After graduating from Spring High School in Houston in June 1960, O'Neill graduated from the University of Oklahoma in Norman , Oklahoma , from September 1960 , where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in August 1964 . In September of the same year he entered the Department of Zoology and Physiology of the Louisiana State University Graduate School, where he graduated with a Master of Science degree in May 1970 . In July 1972 he married Carol Ann Speer. In 1974 he was with the dissertation The Birds of Balta a Peruvian Dry Tropical Forest Locality, With an Analysis of Their Origins and Ecological Relationships under the direction of George Hines Lowery for Ph.D. PhD from Louisiana State University .

In September 1977, O'Neill and his Peruvian colleague Gustavo del Solar succeeded in rediscovering the white- winged guan ( Penelope albipennis ) in northwestern Peru , a species that has not been seen since the holotype was collected by the Polish ornithologist Jan Sztolcman in 1876.

O'Neill was involved in the first descriptions of numerous Peruvian bird species, including the violet-shouldered tangar ( Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron ) Lowery & O'Neill , 1964, the Koepckekassike ( Cacicus koepckeae ) Lowery & O'Neill , 1965, the black- faced kotinga ( Conioptilon ) mcilhennyi Lowery & O'Neill , 1966, to the pale- breasted ant pitta ( Grallaria eludens ) Lowery & O'Neill , 1969, to the Peruvian owl ( Xenoglaux loweryi ) O'Neill & GR Graves , 1977, to the cinnamon- breasted todityran ( Hemitriccus cinnamomeipectus & ) Fitzpatrick 'Neill , 1979, to ocher end-Ameisenpitta ( Grallaricula ochraceifrons ) GR Graves, O'Neill & TA Parker , 1983 to Inca Wren ( Pheugopedius iron Manni ) ( TA Parker & O'Neill , 1985), for Graukehl-Ameisenfänger ( Herpsilochmus parkeri ) Davis & O'Neill , 1986, on the cinnamon screech owl ( Megascops petersoni ) ( Fitzpatrick & O'Neill , 1986), on the Amazon parakeet ( Nannopsittaca dachilleae ) O'Neill, Munn & Franke , 1991, on the Loreto bearded bird ( Capito wa llacei ) O'Neill, DF Lane, AW Kratter, AP Capparella & CF Joo , 2000, on the Várzeadrossel ( Turdus sanchezorum ) O'Neill, Lane & Naka , 2011 and on the species Machaeropterus eckelberryi D. F. Lane, AW Kratter & O'Neill , 2017 from the purr family . He also described the yellow-shouldered bat ( Sturnira nana ) in 1971 with Alfred L. Gardner .

In 1973 O'Neill was alongside Don R. Eckelberry illustrator of the work A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Richard Ffrench . In 1990, he and Harold Douglas Pratt contributed illustrations to Kathleen N. Daly's Big Golden Book of Backyard Birds . In 1993 he worked alongside Paul Barruel as an illustrator for the English-language edition of Helmut Sick's Birds in Brazil . In 1999 he published the book Great Texas Birds . In 2007 he was part of the team of authors for the work Birds of Peru, alongside Thomas Scott Schulenberg , Daniel F. Lane and Theodore Albert Parker III .

Dedication names

In 1976, George Hines Lowery and Dan Tallman named the brown tangerine ( Nephelornis oneilli ) in honor of O'Neill. In 1979 Douglas A. Rossman and Richard Thomas named the snake species Dipsas oneilli after O'Neill, who had collected the type specimens in 1975 .

literature

• The Birds of Balta, a Peruvian Dry Tropical Forest Locality, With an Analysis of Their Origins and Ecological Relationships , Ph.D. dissertation at Louisiana State University, 1974, p. 284 (short biography)
• John P. O'Neill. American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Gale In Context: Biography, accessed August 29, 2019.
• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing 2014, p. 416 (short biography)

Web links

• Literature by and about John Patton O'Neill in the WorldCat bibliographic database