Walter E. Boles

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Walter Earl Boles (* 1952 ) is an Australian ornithologist and paleornithologist . His research interests are in evolutionary biology , systematics , paleobiology and the biogeography of the Australian avifauna , especially the passerine birds .

Life

Walter Boles is the son of Robert Joe Boles (1916–2007) and Louise Darby Boles (1925–2011). His father was a professor of aquatic biology at Emporia State University in Kansas . In 1974 Boles graduated from Emporia State University, from which he received a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000. From March 1975 to February 2012 he was a research fellow and collection manager at the bird department of the Australian Museum . Since then he has been a Senior Research Fellow.

In 2000 he was awarded the dissertation Investigations on the Tertiary avifauna of Australia, with emphasis on the Birds of Riversleigh, North Western Queensland for Ph.D. PhD from the University of New South Wales .

Boles has written over 100 articles on the Australian birds, including in 2006 the chapter Rhipiduridae in the eleventh volume and in 2007 the chapters on the families Orthonychidae , Eupetidae , Pachycephalidae and Petroicidae in the twelfth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World . In 1988 his book The Robins and Flycatchers of Australia appeared in the Birds of Australia series of the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. In 1994 he published with Leslie Christidis the work The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories . In 1999 the book Birds of the Australian Rainforests was published in collaboration with Robert Edden . In 2008 he brought out the book Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds , also with Christidis , which is one of the standard works on the systematics of the Australian avifauna.

In 1983 he published the first scientific description of the Eungella honey eater ( Bolemoreus hindwoodi ) together with Wayne Longmore . In 1992 Boles established the genus Emuarius for two fossil emu species from the Oligocene , in 1999 the fossil passerine species Longimornis , in 2006 the fossil passerine species Corvitalusoides, and in 2011 together with Trevor H. Worthy the genus Australlus for two fossil rail species. In 1993 he honored his father in the specific epithet of the fossil raptor species Pengana robertbolesi and in 2005 his mother in the specific epithet of the fossil stork species Ciconia louisebolesae .

In 1995 he presented the remains of the oldest known passerine bird from the Murgon fossil deposit in southeast Queensland in the journal Nature , which are dated to an age of 45 to 55 million years. In 1997, a more extensive review was made in the Journal Emu , but without a description of a family, genus or species. In 2007, Boles was part of a team of scientists who introduced the family Notiomystidae for the stinging bird .

In October 1990, Boles was part of a team that discovered a night parakeet that had been run over; the first positive find after this species was thought to be lost for more than 70 years.

Boles is a member of the International Ornithological Union and the Executive Council of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution (SAPE). He has been an honorary lecturer at the University of Sydney , the University of New South Wales and Charles Sturt University .

Dedication names

In 2011, Árpád Nyári and asked Leo Joseph the Honigfresser genus of Bolemoreus in honor of Walter E. Boles, and Wayne Longmore. In 2012 Trevor H. Worthy named the fossil darter species Anhinga walterbolesi after Waler E. Boles. In 2019 the fossil lacquer bird species Dasyornis walterbolesi from the Miocene was described and named after Boles.

literature

  • Leslie Christidis, Walter E. Boles: Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds CSIRO Publishing 2008, ISBN 978-0-64306-511-6 . (Short biography on p. X)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter E. Boles: The world's oldest songbird Nature, Vol. 374, 1995, pp. 21-22
  2. ^ Walter E. Boles: Fossil Songbirds (Passeriformes) from the Early Eocene of Australia. Emu, Vol. 97 (1), 1997
  3. ↑ Amy Driskell, Leslie Christidis, Brian James Gill, Walter E. Boles, Frederick Keith Barker, N. Wayne Longmore: A new endemic family of New Zealand passerine birds: adding heat to a biodiversity hotspot Australian Journal of Zoology, 55, 2007, Pp. 73-78
  4. ↑ Á.S. Nyári, L. Joseph: Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and historical development of Australo-Papuan bird communities . In: Emu . 111, 2011, pp. 202-211. doi : 10.1071 / mu10047 .
  5. ↑ Trevor H. Worthy: A New Species of Oligo-Miocene Darter (Aves: Anhingidae) from Australia . In: The Auk . 129, No. 1, 2012, pp. 96-104. doi : 10.1525 / auk.2012.11204 .
  6. ↑ Jacqueline MT Nguyen: A new species of bristlebird (Passeriformes, Dasyornithidae) from the early Miocene of Australia . In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . In Press, 2019. doi : 10.1080 / 02724634.2019.1575838 .
personal data
SURNAME Boles, Walter E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boles, Walter Earl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian ornithologist and paleo ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952