Nagahisa Kuroda

Nagahisa Kuroda (黒田 長久 Kuroda Nagahisa, 23 November 1916 – 26 February 2009) 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]

References

1. Kuroda, N. (1986). "On the intestinal twistings of Gadfly-petrels and comparative notes on the digestive tract in Procellariiformes". Japanese Journal of Ornithology. 35: 1–14. doi:10.3838/jjo.35.1.
2. "In Memoriam: Nagahisa Kuroda, 1916–2009". The Auk. 128 (3): 592. 2011-07-01. doi:10.1525/auk.2011.128.3.592. ISSN 0004-8038. S2CID 198155597.
3. Kuroda, Nagahisa (1961). "A Note on the Pectoral Muscles of Birds". The Auk. 78 (2): 261–263. doi:10.2307/4082145. JSTOR 4082145.
4. Kuroda, Nagahisa (1962). "On the cervical muscles of birds". Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology. 37 (3): 189–211. doi:10.3312/jyio1952.3.189.
5. Olson, Storrs L. (2009). "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. doi:10.2988/09-19.1. S2CID 86663993.

External links

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