Gerard Frederick van Tets (1929-1995), sometimes stated as Jerry van Tets, was an English ornithologist and paleontologist.
Gerard Frederick van Tets was born in London at January 19, 1929. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1958 he became a member of the American Ornithologists' Union. The American Ornithologists' Union ( AOU) an ornithological organization in the USA. He studied at the University of British Columbia where he obtained the PhD academic degree in 1963. The University of British Columbia ( UBC) is a Canadian public research University with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. In November 1963 he married Patricia Anne Johnston in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal After the wedding he moved to Australia where he joined the CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO) is the national government body for scientific research in Australia. He made studies on bird strike damages to aircraft, and later on bird bones in the Australian National Wildlife Collection including such of the extinct Tasman Booby which he scientifically described in 1988. The Tasman Booby ( Sula (dactylatra tasmani) was a large Seabird of the Gannet family Sulidae, described from bones found on Van Tets was a capacity on mutton birds. Muttonbirding is a seasonal harvesting activity which may be recreational or commercial of the chicks of Petrels especially Shearwater species for food oil and He died in 1995.
The extinct New Zealand Stiff-tailed Duck (Oxyura vantetsi) was named in his honour. The New Zealand Stiff-tailed Duck ( Oxyura vantetsi) is an extinct Duck species from New Zealand which is known only from Subfossil
Works (selected)
- 1965: A Comparative Study of Some Social Communication Patterns in the Pelecaniformes, 1965, The American Ornithological Union, Ornithological Monographs, Number 2 : pages 1-88 with 78 figures and 30 tables.
- 1969: Orange Runway Lighting as a Method for Reducing Bird Strike Damage to Aircraft.
- 1966: Banding of Feral Domestic Pigeons. The Australian Bird Bander 4:9
- 1966: Two Dutch Quail-trapping Methods. The Australian Bird Bander 4:36
- 1966: Bird-banding on and Near Christmas Island. The Australian Bird Bander 4:59
- 1970: Continent of Curiosities - Animals and Birds of Australia. (with Kurt Kolar)
- 1977: Guide to the Recognition and Reduction of Aerodrome Bird Hazards
- 1985: Kadimakara: extinct vertebrates of Australia. Princeton University Press
- 1988: Osteological differences between Sula and Morus, and a description of an extinct new species of Sula from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, Tasman Sea. Notornis 35: 35-57. (with Meredith, C. W. ; Fullagar, P. J. ; & Davidson, P. M)
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