Joseph Michael Forshaw

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Joseph Michael Forshaw (born December 13, 1939 in Newcastle , New South Wales , Australia ) is an Australian biologist , ornithologist and author. He is one of the world's leading parrot experts .

Life

As a child, Forshaw kept parrots in an aviary. During the 1950s he completed a pharmacy degree . At a gathering of amateur ornithologists in 1962, he was given a job as a biologist in the wildlife research division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). In this position, Forshaw was able to translate his fascination for parrots into academic research. In 1964, he received a grant from the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund to study parrot hides from the collection of Gregory Mathews at the American Museum of Natural History . Forshaw used the results of this work in his first book Australian Parrots , published in 1969. In the same year he met the painter William Thomas Cooper (1934-2015) at an exhibition for bird painting in Canberra , who agreed to illustrate Forshaw's next book project Parrots of the World . It was funded by a fellowship granted to Forshaw in 1971 by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and published in 1973. Forshaw and Cooper collaborated on several monographs. A friendship existed between the two that lasted until Cooper's death in 2015. In 1974 Forshaw became chief environmental officer for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service (now Environment Australia ). From 1978 to 1980 he was chairman of the World Working Group on Parrots at the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP, now BirdLife International ). Forshaw is a research fellow in the Ornithological Department of the Australian Museum and a corresponding member of the American Ornithologists' Union .

Forshaw wrote more than 16 books and numerous scientific articles, including 1971 the first description of the Taliabu-Motmot-Parrot ( Prioniturus platurus sinerubris ), a subspecies of the golden-coated or Motmot-parrot.

Awards

In 1977 Forshaw received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for services in ornithological research. In 1996 he was one of the first honorary members of the Birds Australia Parrots Association. In 2004 he was awarded the Carolina Medal of the World Parrot Trust .

Works (selection)

  • Australian Parrots . Lansdowne Press, 1969, ISBN 0-87098-032-7
  • Parrots of the World , Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 1973 (illustrated by William T. Cooper)
  • The Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds . 1977.
  • Australian Parrots (2nd edition), 1981 (Illustrated by William T. Cooper)
  • Kingfishers and related birds . Lansdowne Press, 1983-1994 (6 volumes illustrated by William T. Cooper).
  • Encyclopedia of Birds (editor), 1991 (German: Enzyklopädie der Vögel , 1999 published by Weltbild Verlag)
  • Turacos. A Natural History of the Musophagidae . Nokomis Publications, 1997. (Illustrated by William T. Cooper)
  • Cockatoos. A portfolio of all species . Nokomis Publications, 2001. (Illustrated by William T. Cooper)
  • Australian Parrots (3rd edition), 2002 (Illustrated by William T. Cooper)
  • Australian Parrots , 2 volumes, illustrated by William T. Cooper, translated by Rainer Niemann and Dieter Vogels. Arndt , Bretten 2002, ISBN 3-9808245-1-9 (Volume 1), 2003, ISBN 3-9808245-2-7 Volume 2).
  • Parrots of the World: An Identification Guide , 2006 (illustrated by Frank Knight)
  • Trogons: A Natural History of the Trogonidae , 2009 (illustrated by Albert Earl Gilbert)
  • Parrots of the World: An Identification Guide , Princeton University Press, Princeton (2nd edition 2010), ISBN 978-0-691-14285-2 . (Illustrated by Frank Knight)
  • Grassfinches in Australia , 2012 (co-author with Mark Shepherd and Anthony Pridham)
  • Pigeons and Doves in Australia , 2015 (illustrated by William T. Cooper)
  • A natural history of Australian parrots: a tribute to William T. Cooper , 2016 (illustrated by William T. Cooper)
  • Vanished and Vanishing Parrots , 2017 (illustrated by Frank Knight)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ^ Forshaw, JM (1971): A new parrot from the Sula Island, Indonesia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 91 (6): 163-164.
  3. ↑ PsittaScene Volume 16, No 3, August 2004
personal data
SURNAME Forshaw, Joseph Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forshaw, Joseph M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian biologist, ornithologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle , New South Wales , Australia