Thank you Philip. Very sad news. John Penhallurick with his Worldbirdinfo
website did an enormous amount of work who proved and still proves
invaluable for systematists and bird collection curators. It will be a pity
if all his work will not be continued or, at least, maintained accessible
to the world's ornithological community.
All the best,
Giorgio
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(Curator of
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Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
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scritti il 10/09/2014 07.23.40
> [AfricanBirding] worldbirdinfo AND
John Penhallurick
>
> 'Philip Veerman'
[AfricanBirding]
>
> 10/09/2014 07.24
>
> Per:
>
> AfricanBirding
>
> Inviato da:
>
>
>
> Cc:
>
>
"'EuroBirdNet'", BirdsinRussia, "'Bulletin Board for Ornithologists
>
working with Neotropical Birds'", "'Birdchat'"
>
> Per favore,
rispondere a AfricanBirding
>
>
> Hello All,
> This
message has just come in via B-A. Some of you will know of John
>
Penhallurick who lived in Canberra, Australia. His interests clearly
>
extended way beyond our region. In particular his dedication and
>
extreme detail of his endeavours with his world bird info database
> and
his various requests for information of finer point of avian
> taxonomy.
He would often write to mailing lists about what are the
> dividing
features or names between this or that - South American or
> wherever -
subspecies, most of which I had never heard of. Something
> over a year
ago he advised of his illness and regretted that he was
> unable to
continue updating his list of world birds and worried as
> to who could
take it on. I wonder whether he had any offers.
> Also I and no doubt
others will recall his talk to Canberra
Ornithologists G
> roup some
years ago of his excitement at seeing most of the world's
> wild
population of free living California Condors in the sky at one time.
>
Philip
> Canberra, Australia.
> -----Original Message-----From:
Birding-Aus [mailto:birding-aus-
> On Behalf Of
Marie Tarrant Sent:
> Tuesday, 9 September 2014 11:12 AM To: martin
cachard Cc:birding-
>
> What sad news about
John Penhallurick. I remember his email some 18
> months ago advising of
his prognosis.
> At that time he said that the thing that saddened and
worried him
> the most, after saying goodbye to my wife, daughters and
> granddaughter was that he would have to give up his ambition to get
> to 8000 birds. Condolences to his family
> Marie Tarrant
> Kobble Creek
>
> On 9 September 2014 09:10, martin
cachard <> wrote:
> > hello everyone,
> > I've just now received word from John Penhallurick's daughter that
he
> > has just passed away a few days ago... i'm very sorry to hear
this
> > very sad news...
> >
> > take care.
> > martin cachard
> > cairns
> >
> >
> From: > > To: > >
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] 2014 VicTwitch Record
> > >
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 09:06:34 +1000
> > >
> -----Original
Message-----From:
>
[ On Behalf Of John Penhallurick
>
Sent: Sunday, 16 February 2014 2:01 PM To:
> Cc: 'EuroBirdNet'; ;
>
; 'Bulletin Board for Ornithologists
>
working with Neotropical Birds'; Birdchat
> Subject: [AfricanBirding]
worldbirdinfo
>
> Hi Friends,
> I was hoping that I
could cotinue working on my website untilo I was
> eighty. But
bulbar-onset Motor Neurone Disease has put paid to that.
> It is a
horrible disease: in one year it has destroyed all ability
> to produce
intelligilbe speech,and 98% of my swallowing. As you can
> imagine, this
has wrewcked my social life. And noe it has started
> to affect my limbs.
It has started destroying the motor neurones
> that control my right
foot, and I expect the next target wil be my
> right hand & arm.
> So Ihave to make some decisions about what to do with my website.
> Ihave almosy fiished updating the Movements field for the
>
Chsradiidae and Svolpacidae, because movements are very impotant for
>
these groups.
> I added photos or images and calls for almost all of
them. Check it
> out and let meknow of any species that Ihave mixed .
> One consequece of my short remaining time (and the MND is extremely
> variable- I don't know whether it wil kill me in six months or four
> years) is that I have decided to abandon the original aim of
>
providing full synnymies for all generic,subgeneric,species and
>
subspecies names. In principle I'lljust give the citations always,
> plus
any synonymd mentioned in Peters.Using sources like Ridgway's
> Birds of
North and Middle America takes a lot of time, as the
> synomies are
organized by names, not chronology. I will not attach
> calls where they
are relatively uni,portant in indetifying a species
> eg: the Trochiidae.
> I'll keep you posted on progress, and I will have to notiff a change
> of ISP. My present ISP charges $250 a month, and the website would
> disapar a mnth after my death.
> D r John Penhallurick
>
86 Bingley Cres
> Fraser A.C.T. 2615
> Australia
>
email:
> Phone: Home (612) 62585428
>
Mobile:0408585426
> sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt Aeneid
Book 1,line
> 462 "The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of
mortality
> touch the heart."
> Magna est veritas et praevalet
Vulgate, Book of Edras
> The legi timate object of government is to do
for a community of
> people whatever they need to have done, but can not
do at all, or
> can not so well do, for themselves–in their separate, and
individual
> capacities. Abraham Lincoln
> "It's good to look
beyond the bounds of accepted ideas" James
> Peebles,Princeton University
> Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net
>
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