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11/2010 – 12/2011 LSNY News-Letter Volume 64, No. 5 Volume 64 November/December 2010 AWARDS COMMITTEE REPORT Helen Hays, Chairman For their excellent work in 2009/2010 I Nacional de Historia Natural in Havana. He would like to thank and congratulate members will be the lead author on a forthcoming book of the Society’s Awards Committee: John on the coral reef fish found of Cuba. He is Cairns, Irving Cantor, Wolfgang Demisch, also an enthusiastic tennis player. He played in Joseph DiCostanzo, Mary LeCroy, Geoffrey the Wimbledon championship matches in Nulle, Starr Saphir, and Gil Schrank. All 1956 – 1961 and with his brother Rey for ten worked hard and did a good job. In the fol- years in Davis Cup matches. In 1959 he was lowing paragraphs I report the awards pro- the finalist against his brother in singles in the posed by the committee to the Council and Canadian Open. Also in 1959 he and his voted by the membership at the annual brother played the final doubles match, losing meeting March 9, 2010. I have included the to Australia. In 2006 Orlando received a definition of the awards given either as it plaque in Miami naming him to the hall of appears in the Society’s constitution or as it fame of Cuban tennis. He looks forward to has been defined by the committee, so that in playing in the World’s Senior Tournament in future, if you think of someone you would Turkey in September 2011 like to propose for consideration for an award Through his identification of Cuba’s you will not hesitate to write/email me. birds, fish, amphibians and insects, Garrido Article 3 of the constitution states has produced an impressive documentation of “Honorary Members shall not exceed 10 in its fauna. His prodigious output (274 publica- number, and shall be persons eminent for tions) on the birds of Cuba as well as the their attainments in one or more of the nat- West Indies, and his forthcoming book on ural sciences.” Prior to March of 2010 the coral reef fish provide an important founda- Society’s current membership included two tion for future work in this region’s fields of Honorary Members: Dominique Homberger ornithology and ichthyology. His publications and Ozaki Kiyoaki. On March 9, 2010 the document 45 bird species new for Cuba and following Honorary members were elected by one for Puerto Rico. Writing for Cornell the membership: Orlando Garrido, Cuba, University Press, Davis Finch called the Field Arturo Kirkconnell, Cuba, Yossi Lesham, Guide to the Birds of Cuba : “The first book Israel, and James Rising, Canada. entirely devoted to Cuba’s birds to appear in Following his studies at Miami University eighty years, Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba is a Orlando Garrido returned to Cuba and is a serious work in the tradition of Don Ramon leading ornithologist and curator at the Museo de la Sagra, Johannes Gundlach and Thomas 1 Barbour. With vast amounts of new informa- with an emphasis in invertebrates. After tion, range maps, and admirable illustrations, college he worked as the Empresa Nacional it is at once a summation of Cuban orni- para la Proteccion de la Flora y la Fauna. He thology and an excellent field guide.” Garrido found no one in his office was interested in has described 21 subspecies in the Antilles what he knew about invertebrates and he which occur on the islands of Puerto Rico, decided to learn about birds, because birds Navassa, St. Lucia and St. Vincent. In the were a popular topic. One day he observed an process of making revisions of Birds of the West American Redstart and a Northern Parula Indies he found new endemics in Cuba, Puerto near the office and was stunned by their Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica and St. Kitts. beauty. At 24 he began his studies of birds Garrido is an experienced diver, an asset and at first could identify only three – Turkey in his over thirty year study of coral reef fish Vulture, chicken, and flamingo! For his first on a transect on the northern coast of Havana two years of apprenticeship in ornithology he City. Here he has found 146 species, of which had no binoculars, but then acquired a pair of 26 were new records for Cuba. The book will old Russian ones. In retrospect he feels the include 105 color photos of coral fish the two years without binoculars were useful author collected alive and photographed in an because he developed ways of identifying aquarium in his house. There will be text birds based on their behavior. He became material giving the size of the fish and a little increasingly interested in bird behavior and about the courtship of some species. Habitat communications. One of his favorite bird calls descriptions will include depths at which the is that of the Carolina Wren. He considers its fish are found. The book will also includes a call “the nicest natural alarm clock”. new record of coral fish for Puerto Rico and a Orlando Garrido took Kirkconnell to the rediscovery of a brackish water fish, originally Botanical Garden in 1984 to look at birds. described by Felipe Poey in 1876. During his Nine years later, in 1993 they began working field work he has collected data on reptiles on The Birds of Cuba. and insects, enabling him to describe 91 forms As part of his research Kirkconnell of reptile (44 species) and 31 species of continues studies of a number of endemic insects. Other researchers have dedicated taxa species at Bermejas, an 800 hectare area in to Garrido (27 species). Zapata where sixteen endemic species nest. Orlando Garrido’s books include: Las Here he studies the Bee Hummingbird, Palomas de Cuba; Los Patos de Cuba; Conozca las Fernandina’s Flicker, and the Cuban Tody and rapaces; Cataloga de las Aves de Cuba (1975) leads expeditions to search for “Cuban Kite” coauthored with Florentino Garcia Montana (an endangered race of the Hook-billed Kite and later coauthored with Arturo Kirkconnell considered by some to be a separate species), (in press); Birds of Cuba with Arturo Kirk- Zapata Rail and Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. He connell, a Spanish version in press; A Guide to also studies the distribution of other species in the Birds of the West Indies coauthored with these areas and has 65 publications to his Herbert Raffaele, James Wiley, Allan Keith credit. In addition he is working in Bermejas and Jeanette Raffaele; Les Oiseaux des Antilles with Jim Wiley on the feeding and breeding (with the same coauthors; Mariposas de Puerto ecology of the Cuban Pygmy-Owl, Rico with Antonio Pérez Asso and Julio Gundlach’s Hawk and Bare-legged Owl. At Antonio Genaro. Finally, Garrido has done a Bermejas, he also runs an educational translation of Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowatt program teaching school children about the which he expects to be published soon. birds that nest there, explaining the impor- Orlando and his wife have two sons and tance of the area for the birds and the impor- two grandchildren. tance of its conservation for Cuba. Arturo Kirkconnell, also a curator at the Kirkconnell’s work in the Zapata Swamp Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Havana, focused conservationists on the status of the majored in the biology at Havana University Zapata Rail. In the 1970’s the voice of what 2 was thought to be the Zapata Rail had been provides models for other countries with recorded and published. Subsequently, for similar conservation problems. over twenty years, birds responding to tapes James D. Rising is professor emeritus, of this call provided data on new localities for Department of Ecology and Evolutionary the species in the Zapata Swamp. In 2001 Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga. Kirkconnel discovered that the call originally His research interests have included hybrid was, in fact, the Spotted Rail , thus rendering zones in the Great Plains and geographic useless all previous records of the Zapata Rail variation and evolution. His study species based on calls alone. Subsequently, he found have been New World orioles and sparrows. the status of the Zapata Rail was more serious In addition to intensive studies, particularly of than previously thought. In 2001 the African sparrows he has co-authored with David Catfish invaded the Zapata Swamp after Beadle: A Guide to the Identification and Natural Hurricane Michelle damaged a facility in History of the Sparrows of the United States and which the catfish were being raised. In the Canada , Sparrows of the United States and Canada : following years young gallinules have been The Photographic Guide , and Tanagers, Cardinals, found in the stomachs of the catfish. and Finches of the United States and Canada : The Kirkconnell reports that in the 100 trips he Photographic Guide . has made to the Zapata Swamp in the last Rising served on the American Ornithol- twenty years the number of rails has dropped ogists’ Union’s Committee on Classification precipitously. The Zapata Rail is now and Nomenclature – North and Middle considered critically endangered and is on the America, which produced the Fiftieth Supple- IUCN Red List. ment to the AOU’s Check-List of North Kirkconnell is actively involved with the American Birds. He also served as Chairman of birding community world wide, having begun the AOU Committee on Scientific Awards. leading birding tours in 1988. He has three A distinguished member of the AOU and “grail” species: Zapata Rail, Ivory-billed a past-president of the Wilson Society, Rising Woodpecker and “Cuban Kite”. has mentored a number of students for higher Yoshi Lesham worked in various capa- degrees, among them the next Linnaean cities for the Society for the Protection of Society of New York Eisenmann Medalist, Nature in Israel (SPNI) from 1980 to 1991, Alvaro Jaramillo, who will be presented with then became its Executive Director from the medal on March 8, 2011.
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