Phil Gregory
Philip "Phil" Andrew Gregory (born January 30, 1951 in Southampton ) is a British ornithologist and leader of bird watching tours . He also works as a bioacoustic specialist and bird photographer .
Life
Gregory graduated from the University of Southampton with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography in 1973 . In 1977 he took his first bird watching tour in Queensland , Australia . From 1981 to 1988 he was an editor and regular contributor to Chembe News magazine in Zimbabwe . In 1986 he published Birds of Chembe - A Checklist . From 1988 to 1990 he published a wildlife column in the Penguin News in Stanley , Falkland Islands . From 1991 to 1997 he lived in Papua New Guinea , where he and his wife were teachers at Tabubil International School in the Western Province . Since 1993 he has been editor of the journal Muruk of the Papua New Guinea Birdwatching Society. In 1995 he published the book The Birds of the Ok Tedi . He has also published articles in Birding World , Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club , British Birds , Bulletin of the African Bird Club and The Ostrich . He is a member of the Standing Advisory Committee on English Common Names of the IOC World Checklist of Birds.
Gregory visited over 50 countries on his bird watching tours including the Pacific region, Asia , Australia, Nigeria , Zambia , Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Falkland Islands. However, his main focus is on the avifauna of Papua New Guinea. Since 1998 he has served as a senior tour manager for US and Australian ecotourism companies.
In 2006 he wrote the family chapter on monarchs in volume 11 in collaboration with Brian Coates, Guy Dutson, Chris Filardi, Peter Clement and Kees Moeliker , in 2007 he wrote the family chapter on bristle birds and the South Sea warblers in volume 12 and in 2008 he wrote over the family chapter the flower pickers in the thirteenth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World . In the same year he published the field guide Birds of Australia and its Island Territories - A Checklist . In 2011 he published in collaboration with Guy Dutson and Walter E. Boles , a study in which the Heinroth Crow ( Corvus insularis ), which of a time as a subspecies Torre Crow ( Corvus orru ) or the Bougainvillekrähe ( Corvus meeki was), again in the species status was raised. In the same year the field guide Birds of New Guinea and its Offshore Islands - A Checklist was published .
In 2017, Gregory's book Birds of New Guinea: Including Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville was published , which won the Whitley Award of the Royal Society of New South Wales in the category Best Field Guide . In 2018 he published the work A Field Guide to Birds of Northern Queensland in collaboration with the illustrator Jun Matsui .
In early 2020, the book Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds , illustrated by Richard Allen , was published.
literature
- John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-95149-658-9 , p. 155
Web links
- Sicklebill Safaris employee profile
- Profile at the Internet Bird Collection
- Profile at the bird song database Xeno-Canto
- Want to travel to New Guinea? Come with us off the beaten path with Phil Gregory (Interview with Phil Gregory about his work in Papua New Guinea)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guy Dutson, Phil Gregory & Walter Boles: Bismarck Crow Corvus (orru) insularis warrants species status In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 13 (3), 2011, pp. 204-206
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gregory, Phil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gregory, Philip Andrew (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ornithologist and director of bird watching tours |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southampton |