John Seddon Weske

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Seddon Weske (born March 27, 1936 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American ornithologist . His research focus is the Peruvian avifauna .

Life

In 1957, Weske received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in engineering and applied physics . From 1957 to 1958 he worked as a technical draftsman at BIF Industries in Providence , Rhode Island . From February 1959 to January 1961, he served in the United States Army Engineering Corps . From 1961 to 1964, Weske studied at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York, where he received a Schuyler Gage scholarship and worked as a research assistant. In 1969 he received his Master of Science degree there with the thesis An ecological study of the Black Rail in Dorchester County, Maryland . From 1964 Weske studied at the University of Oklahoma . Between 1965 and 1968 and in 1970 Weske traveled to Peru together with his colleague John Terborgh (* 1936). The long-term botanical and ornithological study carried out there in the valley of the Río Apurímac served as the basis for Weske's doctoral thesis entitled The distribution of the avifauna in the Apurimac Valley of Peru with respect to environmental gradients, habitat, and related species , with which he received his Ph .D. received his doctorate. In the following years Weske and Terborgh undertook further research trips to Peru. Weske also undertook biological expeditions to the Labrador Peninsula , Mexico and the Northwest Territories in Canada . Weske and Terborgh described seven new species of birds including the Koepckehokko (1971), the Rostkehlcanastero (1972), the Gelbbrauenhemispingus (1974), the Orange Brown Hermit (1977), the cloud forest Screech (1981), the green crown Andes Hummingbird (1985) and the Siratangare (1987).

Weske is a member of the American Ornithologists' Union , the Cooper Ornithological Society, and the Wilson Ornithological Society.

Dedication names

In 1984 James V. Remsen named the Vilcabamba tree slip ( Cranioleuca weskei ) in honor of John Seddon Weske.

Works (selection)

  • Marine and coastal Birds , Mesa New York Bight Atlas Monograph 31, 1978 (with Marshall A. Howe and Roger B. Clapp)

literature

  • Biographical Sketch: John Seddon Weske In: John Seddon Weske: An ecological study of the Black Rail in Dorchester County, Maryland , Master Thesis of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1969, p. 2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JS Weske & JW Terborgh: A new subspecies of curassow of the genus Pauxi from Peru. Auk 88 (2), 1971, pp. 233-238.
  2. ↑ C. Vaurie, JS Weske & JW Terborgh: Taxonomy of Schizoeaca fuliginosa (Furnariidae), with descriptions of two new subspecies. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 92 (5), 1972, pp. 142-144.
  3. ^ John Seddon Weske, John Whittle Terborgh: Hemispingus parodii, a new species of tanager from Peru. Wilson Bulletin 86, 1974, pp. 97-103.
  4. ↑ John Seddon Weske, John Whittle Terborgh: Phaethornis koepckeae, a New Species of Hummingbird from Perú. In: The Condor. Vol. 79, No. 2, 1977, pp. 143-147
  5. ^ John Seddon Weske, John Whittle Terborgh: Otus marshalli, a new species of screech-owl from Perú. Auk 98, 1-7.
  6. ^ John S. Weske: A new subspecies of Collared Inca Hummingbird (Coeligena torquata) from Peru. In PA Buckley, MS Foster, ES Morton, RS Ridgely, FG Buckley (eds.), Neotropical ornithology. Ornithological Monographes, 36, 1985, pp. 41-45.
  7. ^ Gary Russell Graves, John Seddon Weske: Tangara Phillipsi, a New Species of Tanager From the Cerros Del Sira, Eastern Peru. In: The Wilson Bulletin. Vol. 99, No. 1, 1987, pp. 1-6
  8. ↑ James Vanderbeek Remsen: Geographic Variation, Zoogeography, and Possible Rapid Evolution in Some Cranioleuca Spinetails (Furnariidae) of the Andes. In: The Wilson Bulletin. Vol. 96, No. 4, 1984, pp. 515-523
personal data
SURNAME Weske, John Seddon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio