Kuroda Nagahisa

Kuroda Nagahisa ( Japanese 黒 田 長久 ; born November 23, 1916 in Tokyo ; † February 26, 2009 ) was a Japanese ornithologist .

Live and act

Kuroda was the son of the ornithologist Nagamichi Kuroda . During his school days he developed an interest in stranglers and terns . After finishing school, he studied at Gakushūin University and Tokyo University , where he graduated from the Faculty of Science in 1937. During the Second World War he did five years of military service in the Imperial Guard , where he looked after the carrier pigeons, among other things. From 1947 to 1950 he was a technical advisor to the US ornithologist Oliver L. Austin, Jr. , then head of the wildlife branch of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and the US Army General Medical Laboratory . In 1951 he worked for the 406th Medical General Laboratory of the US Army and examined the antibodies of migratory birds infected with Japanese encephalitis . From 1952 he was head of research at the Yamashima Institute of Ornithology. He studied the anatomy and way of life of seabirds and took part in numerous marine expeditions with several international groups. In 1953 he obtained his doctorate at the University of Hokkaidō , where he worked with Professor Tohru Uchida (1897-1981) on the systematics and phylogenesis of tubular noses . In 1990 Kuroda became the first director of the Abiko Bird Museum .

Kuroda was president of several societies, including the Ornithological Society of Japan (1970-1976 and 1980-1989), the Wild Bird Society, the Japanese Association for the Preservation of Birds, the Japanese Bird-banding Society and the Japanese section of the International Council for Bird Preservation (now BirdLife International ).

Nagahisa Kuroda was artistically and musically gifted. He played the cello and in 1978 he drew the extinct Schopfkasarka in memory of his father . He was married for 30 years and had two children.

Dedication names

In 2009 Storrs L. Olson named the fossil petrel Calonectris kurodai from the Miocene in honor of Kuroda.

Works (selection)

• 1953: The Birds of Japan: Their status and distribution (with Oliver L. Austin, Jr.)
• 1954: On the classification and phylogeny of the order Tubinares, particulary the shearwaters (Puffinus): with special considarations [sic] on their osteology and habit differentiation
• 1956: Chōrui no zukan
• 1967: Story of Birds: The Ecology
• 1986: Tori

literature

• In Memoriam: Nagahisa Kuroda, 1916–2009 In: The Auk. 128 (3), 2011: p. 592

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kuroda is the family name, Nagahisa the first name.