Nigel Cleere

Nigel Cleere (born September 21, 1955 in Newbury , Berkshire ) is an English ornithologist. His research focus is the swallow-like (Caprimulgiformes).

Life

In 1974 Cleere started as a bird ringer . In 1988 he became a member of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) funding body . He ringed thousands of birds of more than 300 species in the UK and overseas, including Israel, Kuwait, Mallorca, Portugal (several times since 1987), Senegal and Malawi. Among the birds that Cleeres special interest aroused, among the sedge warblers , Siskins , the reed bunting and all kinds of night swallows . Between 1993 and 2000 Cleere visited all large museum collections in Europe and North America, but also smaller collections in Africa and South America, in order to record and examine all types of swallow-like species for a research project. In 1998 he published under the title Nightjars: A guide to nightjars and related birds, the first field guide about the swallow-like. In 2010 another book was published under the title Nightjars of the World: Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird and Owlet-Nightjars . He has also written articles for several magazines, including Ibis , Cotinga , Emu , Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club , ABC Bulletin , Birding World and British Birds . In 1999 he wrote the chapter on the swallow-like in the fifth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World . In 2006 he described the subspecies Systellura longirostris mochaensis of the great mirror night swallow from the Chilean islands of Mocha and Ascención. In 2007 he revised Ernst Hartert's first description of the Solomon's hawk from 1901 and established the new genus Rigidipenna for this monotypical taxon.

Between 2000 and 2002 Cleere worked for the Natural History Museum in London to digitally record and curate its entire collection of swallow-like species . Between May and July 2002 he assisted Paul Salaman on the BioMap project, which was founded in the Natural History Museum to digitally record all 6,700 hides of Colombian birds. In August 2002, he took part in the BioMap project at the American Museum of Natural History to digitally classify its Colombian bird collection of 27,000 bellows. Between September and December 2002 he continued to collect data for the BioMap project in several European museum collections, including the Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam (ZMA), the Museum Naturalis , Leiden, the Museum für Naturkunde , Berlin, the Senckenberg Research Institute and Museum of Nature , Frankfurt am Main, in the National Museum of Natural History (MNHNL) in Luxembourg and in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (MSNM), Milan.

Cleere is a member of the British Trust for Ornithology, the American Bird Club and the Ornithological Society of the Middle East.

literature

• John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9514965-8-9 , p. 80

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cleere, N. (2006): A new subspecies of Band-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longirostris from central Chile . Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 126 (1): 12-19.
2. ↑ Cleere, N., Kratter, AW, Steadman, DW, Braun, MJ, Huddleston, CJ, Filardi, CE & Dutson, GCL (2007): A new genus of frogmouth (Podargidae) from the Solomon Islands — results from a taxonomic review of Podargus ocellatus inexpectatus Hartert 1901. Ibis 149 (2): 271-286.