Dick Watling
Richard John Watling ( born November 13, 1951 in Kampala, Uganda), better known as Dick Watling, is an ornithologist, ecologist and conservationist from the Fiji Islands.
Life
After a childhood in East Africa Watling 1967 citizens of Fiji. From 1970 to 1973 he completed a zoology degree at the University of Bristol in England, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree with distinction. Starting in 1973, studied in the Department of Applied Biology at the University of Cambridge, where he in 1977 with a dissertation on the Rußbülbül ( Pycnonotus cafer ), an introduced species that has been in the Fiji Islands to the plague, to the Ph.D. doctorate. In 1977 he was a scientific member of the Zoological Society of London and the British Ornithologists ' Club. In 1982 he was elected for life as a member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. From 1985 to 1988 he was a research staff of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. 1986, he worked as a research staff of the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of the South Pacific. From 1988 to 1995 he was editor of the journal " Domodomo " of the Fiji Museum. In 1994 he became a member of the Environment Research Institute of the University of Wollongong. In 1995 he became a member of the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas of the IUCN. From 1999 to 2009 he represented the organization BirdLife International in the Fiji Islands. In 2007 he was manager of the Fiji Nature Conservation Trust. To Watlings fields of activity include the planning and management of environmental and nature conservation, ecological assessment, nature conservation, wildlife management, management of nature reserves, the ecology of tropical forests, the ecology of terrestrial vertebrates, the island ecology and the ecology of the mangrove forests. Watling worked in Fiji, American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Malaysia, Indonesia (especially Java, Bali, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi ), Cambodia, Laos, the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador as well as in Tanzania, particularly at Lake Manyara and Serengeti.
Watling 1984 succeeded the rediscovery of rare Macgillivray 's petrel ( Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi ) on the Fiji island of Gau, a bird that was thought to be extinct since 1855.
Dedikationsnamen
Trevor H. Worthy Watling 2004 honored in the epithet of extinct Viti Levu - Rail ( Vitirallus watlingi ).