Nagahisa Kuroda Explained

was a Japanese ornithologist. He wrote several books on the birds of Japan and worked on Japanese encephalitis, the systematics of shearwaters, ducks and on avian anatomy.

Kuroda was the son of Japanese ornithologist Nagamichi Kuroda. He studied at Gakushuin High School and Tokyo University before receiving his doctorate from Hokkaido University where he worked on the systematics of shearwaters under Toru Uchida. He worked briefly with the US Army 406th Medical General Laboratory, collaborating with Dr. Oliver L. Austin. He then moved to the Yamashina Institute of Ornithology where he worked for the rest of his life. He took a special interest in the seabirds.^[1] He was an able artist and a violoncello player.^[2] He also wrote on avian anatomy, including notes on the pectoral,^[3] and cervical muscles.^[4]

A fossil species of shearwater Calonectris kurodai was named in his honour.^[5]

External links

• Japanese ornithology and mammalogy during World War II : (an annotated bibliography)

Notes and References

1. 1986. On the intestinal twistings of Gadfly-petrels and comparative notes on the digestive tract in Procellariiformes. Japanese Journal of Ornithology. 35. 1–14. Kuroda, N.. 10.3838/jjo.35.1. free.
2. 2011-07-01. In Memoriam: Nagahisa Kuroda, 1916–2009. The Auk. 128. 3. 592. 10.1525/auk.2011.128.3.592. 198155597. 0004-8038. free.
3. 10.2307/4082145. 4082145. A Note on the Pectoral Muscles of Birds. The Auk. 78. 2. 261–263. 1961. Kuroda. Nagahisa. free.
4. On the cervical muscles of birds. Kuroda, Nagahisa. Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology. 1962. 37. 3 . 189–211. 10.3312/jyio1952.3.189. free.
5. 10.2988/09-19.1. A new diminutive species of shearwater of the genus Calonectris (Aves: Procellariidae) from the Middle Miocene Calvert Formation of Chesapeake Bay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 122. 4. 466–470. 2009. Olson. Storrs L.. 86663993.