James Clements
James Franklin Clements (October 31, 1927 – June 9, 2005) was an American ornithologist, author and businessman. He was born in New York, United States. He married Mary Norton and they had two sons.
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James Clements
- Name
- James Clements
- Born
- 31 October 1927
- Birthplace
- Wickam Bishops, Essex, United Kingdom
- Died
- 9 June 2005
- Place of death
- Oceanside, California, United States
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- ornithologist · writer · businessperson
- Education
- Alliant University
- Languages
- English
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Biography
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His second marriage, which lasted 14 years, was to Christina. He married a third time, to Karen. He received his PhD from California Western University in 1975. His thesis became the first edition of his Birds of the World, A Check List (now in its sixth edition). Clements was mostly finished with the sixth edition at the time of his death, and responsibility for the series was taken up by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (Cornell Lab) by arrangement with Clements's widow, Karen. The Cornell Lab finished the sixth edition, maintains corrections and updates for it, and plans to publish future editions. The specific epithet of a bird, the Iquitos gnatcatcher, Polioptila clementsi, is named after him.
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• Name — James Clements • Born — 31 October 1927 • Birthplace — Wickam Bishops, Essex, United Kingdom • Died — 9 June 2005 • Place of death — Oceanside, California, United States
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James Clements, born in 1927 and died in 2005, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3161091: James Clements
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 132733898X, Boswell, James Clements.
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- 1.Preface to the 6th Edition — Clements Checklist
- 2.Downloadable Checklist | Clements Checklist.
- 3.Whitney, Bret M. A new species of gnatcatcher from white-sand forests of northern Amazonian Peru with revision of the Polioptila guianensis complex. Wilson Bulletin. 117. 2. 113–127. 2005. 10.1676/04-064.
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- Birds of the World, A Check List
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 20 August 2026.
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