Editorsâ Note As ornithologists who have dedicated substantial portions of our professional lives to promoting bird conservation in Nicaragua, we have found the work of Thomas R. Howell to be a constant source of inspiration. Until this time, however, one of his most important contributions, the âChecklist of the Birds of Nicaragua,â had remained unpublished. Tragedies and delays in the publication of substantial contributions were not new to the history of Nicaraguan ornithology. Waldron DeWitt Miller was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1929 just before completing a full account of the birds of Nicaragua coauthored with Ludlow Griscom. Soon after Millerâs death, Griscom left the American Museum of Natural History and abandoned publication of the manuscript altogether. In the 1940s, Fr. Bernardo Ponsol, a Spanish Jesuit, started a bird collection while he was the director of the Colegio Centro America in Granada, Nicaragua. From 1940 to 1946, he collected over a thousand specimens and compiled numerous field notes. By 1945, he had prepared a manuscript entitled âzonas Biogeográficas de la Flora y Fauna Nicaragüense y Factores Asociados,â but his tragic death in a plane crash in April 1946 left this document unfinished and part of his notes
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Editors' Note
Martínez-Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Will, Tom
Follow Ornithological Monographs
, Volume 68 (1)
University of California Press – Jul 1, 2010
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