Lancelot Eric Richdale
Lancelot "Lance" Eric Richdale , OBE , (born January 4, 1900 in Marton , † December 19, 1983 in Auckland ) was a New Zealand teacher and amateur ornithologist .
Life
Richdale completed his school days in Wanganui . After graduating from Hawkesbury Agricultural College near Sydney , Australia in 1922 , he settled in Dunedin as a teacher.
Richdale's main interest was sea birds , particularly penguins and petrels . He occupied himself with long-term studies of various species for most of his life and was committed to the protection of the northern king albatross ( Diomedea sanfordi ) in Taiaroa Head , Otago Peninsula , after he was able to observe the first successful young rearing there in 1938. Although most of his research was carried out in New Zealand's South Island , he spent some time abroad, including a Fulbright Fellow at Cornell University from 1950 to 1951 and a Nuffield Research Fellow at the Edward Gray Institute for Bird Research from 1952 to 1955 . After retiring as a teacher, he worked from 1960 to 1963 as a Nuffield Fellow for the Zoological Society of London .
Richdale was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) and wrote numerous articles for their organizational journal Emu but also for several other scientific journals. He has published a number of popular science notebooks on the New Zealand avifauna as well as biological monographs on his research. The books Sexual Behavior in Penguins (1951 with the University of Kansas Press) and A Population Study of Penguins (1957 with the Clarendon Press) were also published.
Awards and dedication names
For his publications, Richdale received the Doctor of Science from the University of New Zealand in 1952 and the Hector Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1953 . For his services to ornithology, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 in honor of the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II . In 2019 the subfossil subspecies Megadyptes antipodes richdalei of the yellow- eyed penguin was named after Richdale.
literature
- Charles A. Fleming, John Warham : Launcelot Eric Richdale, OBE, (1900-1983). Emu 85, pp. 53-54, accessed July 8, 2019.
- Christopher Robertson: Richdale, Lancelot Eric - Biography . Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage, accessed July 8, 2019.
- Neville Peat: Seabird Genius: The Story of LE Richdale, the Royal Albatross and the Yellow-Eyed Penguin. Otago University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-87757-811-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Lancelot Eric Richdale in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette (supplement) , No. 49010, June 11, 1982, p. 40, accessed July 8, 2019.
- Jump up ↑ Theresa L. Cole, Daniel T. Ksepka, Kieren J. Mitchell, Alan JD Tennyson, Daniel B. Thomas, Hailin Pan, Guojie Zhang, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Jamie R. Wood, Pere Bover, Juan L. Bouzat, Alan Cooper, Steven Fiddaman, Tom Hart, Gary Miller, Peter G. Ryan, Lara D. Shepherd, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Jonathan M. Waters: Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 36, Issue 4, April 2019, pp. 784-797 doi : 10.1093 / molbev / msz017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richdale, Lancelot Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richdale, Lance |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand teacher and amateur orithologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marton , New Zealand |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1983 |
| Place of death | Auckland , New Zealand |