Ainley's Storm-petrel (2 Viewers)

[Taphrospilus]

Oceanodroma cheimomnestes (Ainley, 1980) OD here

Etymology: from the Greek, cheimon, winter, and mnestes, suitor, a masculine noun; cheimomnestes refers to the winter breeding season of the population.

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds

Ainley's Storm Petrel Oceanodroma (leucorhoa) cheimomnestes Ainley, 1980
Dr David G. Ainley is an American marine biologist, ornithologist and climatologist. He graduated from Dickinson College (1968) and undertook his PhD at Johns Hopkins University (1971). He was Program Director for Marine Studies at Point Reyes Bird Observatory (1977–1995) and since then has been Senior Ecological Associate with a private company. He wrote The Adélie Penguin: Bellwether of Climate Change (2001) and co-wrote Storm-petrels of the Eastern Pacific Ocean (2011).

According his Ph. D. thesis Communication and reproduction cycles of the Adelie penguin David George Ainley. Probably in there we can find his birth year as includes vita.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

In my MS he's (one of the World's foremost experts on Pelagic Birds) David George Ainley (born 1946), US ornithologist, Marine Biologist, environmentalist, etc., etc.. , commemorated in the Vernacular/Common name Ainley's Storm Petrel for Hydrobates/Oceanodroma cheimomnestes (alt. ainleystormsvala, in Swedish, elevated to species level in 2016).

 

[mb1848]

Monday August 21, 2023 I went looking for storm petrels blown into California by Hurricane Hilary. I got nothing. But some California birders were identifying Ainley's Storm Petrels from Townsend's using a recently published paper.
Potential Identification and Distribution of Ainley’s Storm-Petrel at Sea by Timing of Molt | Western Field Ornithologists .