Edwin O'Neill Willis

Edwin O'Neill Willis

Born	(1935-01-18)18 January 1935 Russellville, Alabama, U.S.
Died	19 February 2015(2015-02-19) (aged 79) Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil
Spouse	Yoshika Oniki
Scientific career
Fields	Ornithologist
Institutions	São Paulo State University

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Edwin O'Neill Willis (18 January 1935 – 11 April 2015) was an American ornithologist who studied the birds of Central and South America.

Biography

Willis was born on 18 January 1935, the son of Andrew Nelson Willis and Verna Fleming. He was raised on a farm in Russellville, Alabama.^[1]

Willis was interested in birds from an early age and published his first article in 1949 when he was 14 years old.^[2] He graduated with a BSc. in biology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1956 and then moved to Louisiana State University where he obtained his master's degree two years later. His dissertation was on The foraging behavior of ant-tanagers in British Honduras.^[1]^[3]

He was awarded a doctorate in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. His dissertation on The Behavior of Bicolored Antbirds was published by the university as a monograph.^[4] He then held a postdoctoral position at the American Museum of Natural History for a year.^[3]

Willis married the ornithologist and entomologist Yoshika Oniki in 1970.^[1] In 1982 he was appointed to a faculty position at the São Paulo State University (Universidade Estadual Paulista) in Rio Claro, Brazil, where he taught until his retirement in 2005. He died on the 11 April 2015 in Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil.^[1]

During his career Willis published nearly 300 scientific articles and books. Some of these were written in Portuguese. Many were co-authored with his wife.^[3] Between 1966 and 1986, he wrote more than 30 papers on ant followers: these are bird species that feed on insects and other arthropods that are flushed by swarms of army ants.^[1]

In recognition of his many contributions to ornithology, when in 1997 a subspecies of the dusky antbird (Cercomacra tyrannina laeta) was promoted to species status, it was named "Willis's antbird".^[5] His name is also used for a subspecies of the red-throated ant tanager (Habia fuscicauda willisi).^[6] The common scale-backed antbird had traditionally been placed in the genus Hylophylax based on the morphology but a 2007 molecular study found that it was not closely related to the other members of the genus.^[7] The common scale-backed antbird was moved to a new genus Willisornis, a name chosen by the Brazilian ornithologists Carlos Agne and José Fernando Pacheco to honour Willis.^[8]

Selected publications

Willis, Edwin (1949). "Fall field trip to St. Francis Sanctuary". Maryland Birdlife. 5 (5): 66.
Willis, Edwin O. (1960). "A study of the foraging behavior of two species of ant-tanagers" (PDF). Auk. 77 (2): 150–170. doi:10.2307/4082348. JSTOR 4082348.
Willis, Edwin O. (1967). The Behavior of Bicolored Antbirds. University of California Publications in Zoology, Number 79. Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press.
Willis, Edwin O. (1968). "Studies of the behavior of lunulated and Salvin's antbirds" (PDF). Condor. 70 (2): 128–148. doi:10.2307/1365956. JSTOR 1365956.
Willis, Edwin O. (1968). "Taxonomy and behavior of pale-faced antbirds" (PDF). Auk. 85 (2): 253–264. doi:10.2307/4083585. JSTOR 4083585.
Willis, Edwin O. (1969). "On the behavior of five species of Rhegmatorhina, ant-following antbirds of the Amazon basin" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin. 81: 362–395.
Willis, Edwin O. (1972). The Behavior of Spotted Antbirds (PDF). Onithological Monographs 10. Lawrence, Kansas: American Ornithologists' Union.
Willis, Edwin O.; Oniki, Yoshika (1972). "Ecology and nesting behavior of the chestnut-backed antbird (Myrmeciza exsul)" (PDF). Condor. 74 (1): 87–98. doi:10.2307/1366453. JSTOR 1366453.
Willis, Edwin O. (1972). "Breeding of the white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons)" (PDF). Auk. 89 (1): 192–193. doi:10.2307/4084077. JSTOR 4084077.
Willis, Edwin O. (1973). The Behavior of Ocellated Antbirds. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 144. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. hdl:10088/5255.
Willis, Edwin O.; Oniki, Y. (1978). "Birds and army ants". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 9: 243–263. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.09.110178.001331. JSTOR 2096750.
Willis, Edwin O. (1981). "Diversity in adversity: the behaviour of two subordinate antbirds". Arquivos de Zoologia. 30 (3): 159–234. doi:10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v30i3p159-234.
Willis, Edwin O. (1982). "The behavior of black-banded woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptes picumnus)" (PDF). Condor. 84 (3): 272–285. doi:10.2307/1367369. JSTOR 1367369.
Willis, Edwin O. (1982). "The behavior of scale-backed antbirds" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin. 94 (4): 447–462.
Willis, Edwin O. (1984). "Phlegopsis erythroptera (Gould, 1855) and relatives (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia. 2 (3): 165–170. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751983000300008.
Willis, Edwin O. (1984). "Myrmotherula antwrens (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 2 (3): 153–158. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751983000300006.
Willis, Edwin O. (1984). "Hypophylax, Hypocnemoides and Myrmoderus (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 2 (3): 159–164. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751983000300007.
Willis, Edwin O. (1984). "Phlegopsis erythroptera (Gould, 1855) and relatives (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 2 (3): 165–170. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751983000300008.
Willis, Edwin O. (1985). "Cercomacra and related antbirds (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 2 (7): 427–432. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751984000300003.
Willis, Edwin O. (1985). "Myrmeciza and related antbirds (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 2 (7): 433–442. doi:10.1590/s0101-81751984000300004.
Willis, Edwin O. (1985). "Antthrushes, antpittas, and gnateaters (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 2 (7): 443–448.
Oniki, Yoshika; Willis, Edwin O. (2002). Bibliography of Brazilian Birds: 1500-2002. Rio Claro, Brazil: Divisa Editora. ISBN 978-85-902676-1-4.
Willis, Edwin O.; Oniki, Yoshika (2003). Aves do Estado de São Paulo (in Portuguese). Rio Claro, Brazil: Divisa. ISBN 978-85-902676-2-1.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ingels, Johan (2015). "In Memoriam: Edwin O'Neill Willis, 1935–2015". Auk. 133 (1): 117–118. doi:10.1642/AUK-15-138.1.
^ Willis 1949.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ragusa-Netto, José (2015). "Obituary: Dr. Edwin O'Neill Willis (1935-2015)". Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia. 23 (2): 79–86. doi:10.1007/BF03544292.
^ Willis 1967.
^ Bierregaard, R.O. Jr.; Cohn-Haft, M.; Stotz, D.F. (1997). "Cryptic biodiversity: an overlooked species and new subspecies of antbird (Aves: Formicariidae) with a revision of Cercomacra tyrannina in northeastern South America". Ornithological Monographs. 48 (48): 111–128. doi:10.2307/40157530. JSTOR 40157530.
^ Parkes, Kenneth C. (1969). "The red-throated ant-tanager (Habia fuscicauda) in Panama and Colombia". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 82: 233–241 [238].
^ Brumfield, R.T.; Tello, J.G.; Cheviron, Z.A.; Carling, M.D.; Crochet, N.; Rosenberg, K.V. (2007). "Phylogenetic conservatism and antiquity of a tropical specialization: Army-ant-following in the typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.07.019. PMID 17768072.
^ Agne, C.E.Q.; Pacheco, J.F. (2007). "A homonymy in Thamnophilidae: a new name for Dichropogon Chubb". Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia (3): 484–485. Archived from the original on 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2018-02-24.

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