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1chrisharpe
I just heard that one of the ornithological giants of the 20th Century, David Snow, died on Wednesday. He made (often jointly with his late wife Barbara Snow) an enormous contribution to ornithology, in particular to our knowledge of American families such as hummingbirds, cotingas and manakins.
Amongst the books he authored are:-
Birds and Berries: A Study of an Ecological Interaction
The Web of Adaptation: Bird Studies in the American Tropics
The Cotingas
The Birds of the Western Palearctic
"Birds, Discovery and Conservation: 100 Years of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club"
Amongst the books he authored are:-
Birds and Berries: A Study of an Ecological Interaction
The Web of Adaptation: Bird Studies in the American Tropics
The Cotingas
The Birds of the Western Palearctic
"Birds, Discovery and Conservation: 100 Years of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club"
2affle
Thank you for passing on this news, Chris. He did a particularly good job editing down BWP to the handier two-volume version.
3chrisharpe
This is what we have just put on the Neotropical Bird Club website:-
http://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/
David Snow 1924–2009
With the death of David Snow, on 4 February 2009, ornithology has lost one of its most distinguished field and museum workers of the second half of the 20th century. Amongst Neotropical ornithologists and birders, David’s name, output and fame are nigh-on legendary. The list of offices he held and his published works are both considerable. David was a former President of the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) (1983–87), Editor of Ibis (1968–73), Editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club (1991–97), and one of the editors of The Birds of the Western Palearctic handbook series. He was awarded the BOU’s Godman-Salvin medal in 1982 and edited the British Ornithologists’ Club centenary anthology Birds: Discovery and Conservation (1992). David was a patron of the Neotropical Bird Club and a regular referee for Cotinga. Early books included A Study of Blackbirds (1958) and The Web of Adaptation (1976). David, and his wife Barbara, who was also a prodigious field worker, published extensively on two Neotropical bird families, cotingas (Cotingidae) and manakins (Pipridae). This work culminated in David’s monograph The Cotingas (published in 1982) and his authorship, in 2004, of both families for the universally acclaimed Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) series. His contributions to our knowledge of these two groups were honoured by Rick Prum’s (2001) erection of the genus Snowornis for two species of Andean green pihas. David also described a new cotinga himself, from south-east Brazil in 1980, and the rare north-east Brazilian endemic Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi is also named for him. Barbara, who predeceased him in July 2007, and he wrote a classic in the Poyser series, Birds and Berries (1988), whilst David also authored the motmots (Motmotidae) for HBW. David’s autobiography, "Birds in our Lives", was published just last year. A great many people will remember him fondly and with much gratitude. Full obituaries will be appearing in Ibis and Bull. Br. Ornithol. Cl. in due course.
http://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/
David Snow 1924–2009
With the death of David Snow, on 4 February 2009, ornithology has lost one of its most distinguished field and museum workers of the second half of the 20th century. Amongst Neotropical ornithologists and birders, David’s name, output and fame are nigh-on legendary. The list of offices he held and his published works are both considerable. David was a former President of the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) (1983–87), Editor of Ibis (1968–73), Editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club (1991–97), and one of the editors of The Birds of the Western Palearctic handbook series. He was awarded the BOU’s Godman-Salvin medal in 1982 and edited the British Ornithologists’ Club centenary anthology Birds: Discovery and Conservation (1992). David was a patron of the Neotropical Bird Club and a regular referee for Cotinga. Early books included A Study of Blackbirds (1958) and The Web of Adaptation (1976). David, and his wife Barbara, who was also a prodigious field worker, published extensively on two Neotropical bird families, cotingas (Cotingidae) and manakins (Pipridae). This work culminated in David’s monograph The Cotingas (published in 1982) and his authorship, in 2004, of both families for the universally acclaimed Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) series. His contributions to our knowledge of these two groups were honoured by Rick Prum’s (2001) erection of the genus Snowornis for two species of Andean green pihas. David also described a new cotinga himself, from south-east Brazil in 1980, and the rare north-east Brazilian endemic Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi is also named for him. Barbara, who predeceased him in July 2007, and he wrote a classic in the Poyser series, Birds and Berries (1988), whilst David also authored the motmots (Motmotidae) for HBW. David’s autobiography, "Birds in our Lives", was published just last year. A great many people will remember him fondly and with much gratitude. Full obituaries will be appearing in Ibis and Bull. Br. Ornithol. Cl. in due course.
