Nigel collar

Nigel James Collar (* 1946 ) is a British ornithologist , nature and species conservationist . His main interests are the families of the bustards (Otididae) and the real parrots (Psittacidae).

Life

Collar grew up in Bristol . After his degree in English Literature at the University of Cambridge , he was also in English Literature for Ph.D. PhD from the University of East Anglia . In 1975, Collar was employed at the Edward Gray Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford , where he worked for six years. During this time he took part in reintroduction projects for the Great Bustard in Great Britain . From 1978 to 1982 he was chairman of the Bustard Group (research and working group bustards) of the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP). Since 2012 he has been chairman of the IUCN Bustard Specialist Group.

Since 2001, Collar has been a member of the Conservation Biology division of the Cyprus-based AG Leventis Foundation . In this role, he supports Master of Science and Ph.D. students at the University of Cambridge, the University of East Anglia, Manchester Metropolitan University and Lancaster University in their research on endangered bird species and their habitats in Angola, Cambodia, on the Cape Verde Islands, on various islands in the Caribbean, in Ethiopia, in Ghana, in Indonesia, on the Philippines, on São Tomé and Príncipe , on the Seychelles, in Spain and in Uzbekistan. He also took part in field studies on endangered bird species in Spain and Ethiopia, including the endangered Sidamo sporn lark .

Collar wrote over 100 scientific articles, including the first descriptions of the Camiguinkauz ( Ninox leventisi ) and the Cebukauz ( Ninox rumseyi ) (both 2012) together with Pamela C. Rasmussen . He wrote the introductory chapters on birds of prey, hens and bustards in Birds of Western Palearctic by Stanley Cramp (1980 and 1983), the chapter on bustards in The Birds of Africa by Emil K. Urban , C. Hilary Fry and Stuart Keith (1986) as well as several book chapters in the Handbook of the Birds of the World , including about the bustards (Volume 3), the parrots (Volume 4), the Trogons (Volume 6), the lazy birds (Volume 7), the thrushes ( Volume 10), the Timalien (Volume 12, with Craig R. Robson ) and the Finches (Volume 15). Furthermore, between 1985 and 2001, Collar was the author of four Red Lists on the endangered bird species of Africa, North and South America, the Philippines and Asia and two checklists of the ICBP on globally endangered bird species. Other books written by Collar deal with flamingos, the key forests for the endangered bird species in Africa, the conservation of endangered bird species and the relationship between birds and humans. 2014 he published in collaboration with Josep del Hoyo and BirdLife International , a follow-up band on an illustrated taxonomic checklist of the non-passerines, the end of 2016 passerines followed.

In addition to his role as an in-situ species protection expert, he has been part of the Loro Parque Foundation's scientific advisory board since 1996 and advocates additional ex-situ species protection measures, such as conservation breeding programs in human care or the keeping and breeding of Birds in private hands.

Dedication names

In 1998 Frank Lambert and Pamela C. Rasmussen named the Sangihe scops owl ( Otus collari ) in honor of Nigel Collar.

Works (selection)

Books

• Threatened Birds of Africa and Related Islands: The ICBP / IUCN Red Data Book, 1985
• Birds to watch: the ICBP world checklist of threatened birds, Volume 1, 1988
• Key Forests for Threatened Birds in Africa, 1988
• Threatened Birds of the Americas, 1992
• Birds to watch two, the world list of threatened birds, 1994
• Threatened Birds of the Philippines: The Haribon Foundation / BirdLife International Red Data Book, 1999
• Pink Africa, 2000 (German: Pink Africa: Die Welt der Flamingos, 2000)
• Threatened Birds of Asia (2 volumes), 2001
• Birds and People - Bonds in a Timeless Journey, 2007 (also in Spanish translation: Las Aves y el Hombre: Vinculos a Traves del Tiempo , 2007)
• Facing Extinction - The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them, 2010 (new edition 2013)
• HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volume 1 (Non-passerines), 2014
• HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volume 2 (Passerines), 2016

Technical article

• Taxonomy and conservation: chicken and egg. In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 117 , no. 2 , 1997, p. 122-136 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Undiscovered country: the non-collection of the Somali shrike . In: Bulletins of the African Bird Club . tape 5 , no. 2 , 1998, p. 136-137 .
• New species, high standards and the case of Laniarius liberatus . In: The Ibis . tape 141 , no. 3 , 1999, p. 358-367 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1999.tb04406.x .

literature

• Erik Hirschfeld: Portrait of Nigel Collar In: The Rare Birds Yearbook 2009, MagDig Media Ltd., Shrewsbury 2008, ISBN 978-0-9552607-5-9 , p. 44
• Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

Web links

• Short biography at the Parrots International Symposium, 2010
• Bibliography Nigel J. Collar
• Interview with Nigel Collar about the protection of bustards and other endangered bird species

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Waugh: The Loro Parque Fundación . In: Thomas Arndt (Ed.): PAPAGEIEN . No. 1 . Arndt-Verlag eK, Bretten January 2019.