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New Zealand ornithologist
Richard Noel Holdaway is a New Zealand ornithologist.
[1] With a
doctorate in avian
palaeobiology and
systematics
[2]
[3] and a
BSc in
neurophysiology and
ornithology , he has studied
birds for three decades primarily in
New Zealand .
[4] In 2003 he received (together with
Trevor Worthy )
[5] the 2003
D. L. Serventy Medal
[6]
[7] Holdaway is director (and owner)
[8] of Palaecol Research Ltd in
Christchurch , New Zealand.
[9] He was recognized for his findings (together with Chris Jacomb)
[10] on the extinction of the New Zealand terrestrial
megafauna by the
University of Otago .
[11] His work has also appeared in the
New Zealand Journal of Zoology ,
[12]
Nature Communications ,
[13] the
US National Library of Medicine ,
National Institutes of Health and
Royal Society Publishing
[14] among others.
[15]
References
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"Richard Holdaway" . The University of Canterbury . Retrieved 9 September 2019 .
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"Richard N Holdaway" . The Conversation . Retrieved 9 September 2019 .
^ Holdaway, Richard (1991).
Systematics and palaeobiology of Haast's eagle (Harpagornis moorei Haast, 1872) (Aves: Accipitridae) (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury.
doi :
10.26021/6893 .
hdl :
10092/6074 .
^
"Richard N Holdaway" . Google Scholar . Retrieved 9 September 2019 .
^ Gsell, Anna Clarissa (May 2012). "The ecology and anatomy of scent in the critically endangered kakapo (Strigops habroptilus )".
S2CID
80672854 .
^ Southern Bird No. 18 June 2004 Outstanding contributions to Australasian ornithology.
^
"Awards - List of Recipients" (PDF) . Birds New Zealand . Retrieved 9 September 2019 .
^ Allentoft, Morten E.; Oskam, Charlotte; Houston, Jayne; Hale, Marie L.; Gilbert, M. Thomas P; Rasmussen, Morten; Spencer, Peter; Jacomb, Christopher; Willerslev, Eske; Holdaway, Richard N. & Bunce, Michael (January 31, 2011).
"Profiling the Dead: Generating Microsatellite Data from Fossil Bones of Extinct Megafauna—Protocols, Problems, and Prospects" . PLOS ONE . 6 (1): e16670.
Bibcode :
2011PLoSO...616670A .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0016670 .
PMC
3031614 .
PMID
21304955 .
^
"Professor Richard N Holdaway" . Palaecol Research .
^
"Study shows that the Moa was killed off by settlers" . The New Zealand Herald . 8 November 2014.
ISSN
1170-0777 . Retrieved 9 September 2019 .
^
"New Zealand's moa were exterminated by an extremely low-density human population" . University of Otago . 10 November 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2019 .
^ Holdaway, R. N.; Worthy, T.H. & Tennyson, A. J. D. (2001).
"A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact" . New Zealand Journal of Zoology . 28 (2): 119–187.
doi :
10.1080/03014223.2001.9518262 .
^ Holdaway, Richard N.; Allentoft, Morten E.; Jacomb, Christopher; Oskam, Charlotte L.; Beavan, Nancy R. & Bunce, Michael (7 November 2014).
"An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa" . Nature Communications . 5 : 5436.
Bibcode :
2014NatCo...5.5436H .
doi :
10.1038/ncomms6436 .
ISSN
2041-1723 .
PMID
25378020 .
^ Horton, Travis W.; Holdaway, Richard N.; Zerbini, Alexandre N.; Hauser, Nan; Garrigue, Claire; Andriolo, Artur & Clapham, Phillip J. (23 October 2011).
"Straight as an arrow: humpback whales swim constant course tracks during long-distance migration" . Biology Letters . 7 (5): 674–679.
doi :
10.1098/rsbl.2011.0279 .
PMC
3169072 .
PMID
21508023 .
^
"New Zealand's moa were exterminated by an extremely low-density human population" . ScienceDaily . 7 November 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2019 .