Jiro Kikkawa

Professor Jiro Kikkawa AM (1929-2016) was a Japanese Australian ornithologist. His early zoological studies were at Tokyo University, Japan[1] and at Oxford University in England. He subsequently spent three years at the University of Otago in New Zealand where he began what was to become an enduring focus of research, the behavioural ecology of Silvereyes and other species of Zosterops.

Early life

Jiro Kakkawa was born in Japan on 15 December, 1929. He studied his BSc at Tokyo University of Fisheries graduating with a degree in marine biology in 1950. He was a Technical Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Japan from 1950-53. He undertook postgraduate study at the University of Oxford from 1955-1956 and was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Otago from 1958-1961. He took his DSc in 1961 from Kyoto University.[2]

Career

In 1961 Kikkawa moved to Australia, first to the University of New England at Armidale, and then to the University of Queensland in 1965. He was Head of the Department of Zoology from 1980-1988. As well as his studies on white-eyes he is well known for his studies on the biogeography of Australian rainforest birds.

After joining the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1961, Kikkawa served on the RAOU Taxonomic Committee as well as on the editorial board of the RAOU journal Emu. In 1999 he was awarded the D.L. Serventy Medal for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region. As well as numerous published scientific papers, he authored and edited several books.

Kikkawa died May 30, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia[3].

Memberships and Awards

  • 1972-1975 President of Queensland Ornithological Society.
  • 1974-1976 President of the Ecological Society of Australia
  • 1986, Gold Medal, Ecological Society of Australia
  • 1999 D.L. Serventy Medal, Birds Australia
  • 1999, Order of Australia Medal[4]

Legacy

The Jiro Kikkawa Research Award honours his memory and is given to a grant awardee whose research best supports and advances bird conservation[1].

References

  1. 1 2 "Birds Queensland Jiro Kikkawa Research Award". www.birdsqueensland.org.au. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  2. ↑ "Kikkawa, Jiro (1929-) - People and organisations". Trove. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  3. ↑ "The death notice/obituary of Jiro KIKKAWA ( - 2016) at HeavenAddress Local Obits". www.heavenaddress.com. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  4. ↑ "Order of Australia - Australia Day 1999" (PDF). Governor General of Australia. January 26, 1999.
  • Anon. (1999). D.L. Serventy Medal 1999: Citation. Jiro Kikkawa. Emu 99: 227.
  • Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3


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