Parkes, Kenneth C., 1922-2007

LC control no.	nr2001007897
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Parkes, Kenneth C., 1922-2007 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Parkes, K. C. (Kenneth Carroll), 1922-2007 Parkes, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Carrol) Parkes, Kenneth Carroll, 1922-2007 Parkes, Kenneth (Kenneth Carroll), 1922-2007
Other standard no.	Q1738845
Associated country	United States
Associated place	New York (N.Y.) Ithaca (N.Y.)
Birth date	1922-08-08
Death date	2007-07-16
Place of birth	Hackensack (N.J.)
Place of death	Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Field of activity	Ornithology Curatorship
Affiliation	Carnegie Museum of Natural History Cornell University United States. Army Cornell University Columbia University. Teachers College. Lincoln School
Profession or occupation	Ornithologists Museum curators
Found in	Annotated list of the birds of Leyte Island, Philippines, 1973: t.p. (Kenneth C. Parkes; Curator of Birds, Carnegie Museum) RLIN, March 8, 2001 (hdg.: Parkes, K. C.; Parkes, Kenneth C.; Parkes, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Carrol); usage: Kenneth C. Parkes; K.C. Parkes) Wikipedia, viewed June 17, 2022: Kenneth Carroll Parkes (Kenneth Carroll Parkes (8 August 1922 - 16 July 2007) was an American ornithologist. He worked as a curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and was involved in studies on birds both in the field and museum, the standardization of North American bird names in English, and on the terminology used to describe molt. Parkes was born in Hackensack, New Jersey and studied in New York City. He went to the Lincoln School of Teachers' College, New York. An interest in the bird art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes and trips to the zoo made him interested in animals and birds from an early age. He obtained his bachelor's (1943) and masters' (1948) degrees from Cornell University followed by a PhD (1952) studying under Arthur A. Allen. He worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an assistant curator of birds from 1953 and became a chief curator in 1975. In 1956 he went on a collection expedition to the Philippines and in 1961 to Argentina. Parkes described numerous bird species and worked on a committee to standardize the English names of birds. He was also involved in a landmark paper that clarified the terminologies used in describing the molts and plumages of birds (Humphrey-Parkes terminology). He was also involved in the production of the humorous journal, the Auklet, which he edited and also contributed to. A compilation of its issues was published in 1983 as The Antic Alcid. He died after a long illness with complications from Parkinson's disease.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Carroll_Parkes> BioOne (website), viewed June 17, 2022: In Memoriam: Kenneth Carroll Parkes, 1922-2007 (Kenneth C. Parkes died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 16 July 2007, less than a month before his 85th birthday. Although he had retired as Chief Curator of Life Sciences and Curator of Birds at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1996, Ken remained active in ornithology until seriously disabled by complications from Parkinson's disease. A died-in-the-wool New Yorker, Ken was, nevertheless, born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on 8 August 1922. Ken attended elementary and high school at the Lincoln School of Teachers' College New York and graduated in 1939. He then went on to Cornell University and received a B.S. in 1943, an M.S. in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army from April 1943 through February 1946. While Ken was at Cornell, his advisor for both his advanced degrees was Arthur A. Allen, who also trained Ken as curator in the Cornell bird collection from 1947 to 1952. Ken's M.A. thesis was "A Survey of Published Colored Illustrations of North American Birds," and his doctoral dissertation The Birds of New York State and Their Taxonomy. Although the latter study was never published in its entirety, parts of it were extracted by Ken for several later papers, and aspects were employed by John Bull for his Birds of New York State (1974). Trained in taxonomic and museum work, Ken insisted that he was incredibly lucky when he was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at Carnegie Museum in 1953.) <https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-125/issue-2/auk.2008.3408/In-Memoriam-Kenneth-Carroll-Parkes-19222007/10.1525/auk.2008.3408.full>
Associated language	eng