Biographical entry Boles, Walter

Summary

Walte Boles has worked at the Australian Museum since 1975 and is currently Collection Manager, Ornithology.

Details

Educated Emporia State University, Kansas. Australian Museum since 1975, working as Scientific Officer, Ornithology Section and Collection Manager, Terrestrial Vertebrates and currently as Collection Manager, Ornithology. Research interests include the evolution, systematics and biogeography of Australian birds, particularly songbirds; moult, ageing and sexing characters of Australian birds; and Tertiary avifauna of Australia. Wrote The Robins & Flycatchers of Australia (1988) and The taxonomy and species of birds of Australia and its territories (1994, with Les Christidis).

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Boles, Walter', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-619780. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 492 pp. Details