Richard C. Banks

USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 
National Museum of Natural History  MRC-111
Washington, DC 20560-0111

Telephone: 202-633-0783

Fax: 202-357-1932

Email: Richard_Banks@usgs.gov  

Emeritus Research Zoologist

Primary Responsibilities: 
Perform research on systematics, nomenclature, and distribution of birds, primarily North American. 

Education/Training: 
B.S., Ohio State University, 1953; Wildlife Conservation
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1958; Zoology
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1961; Zoology

President, Wilson Ornithological Society, 1991-1993

President, American Association of Zoological Nomenclature, 2001-

Honorary Member, Cooper Ornithological Society

Scientific Achievement Award, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 1999

Marion Jenkinson Service Award, American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998 

Active Projects: 
Systematics of American birds

Breeding Birds of Virginia

Geographic variation and nomenclature of White-fronted Geese  

Check-list of North American Birds 

Publications/Products: 
American Ornithologists’ Union.  2000.  Forty-second Supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North American Birds.  Auk 117:847-858.  (Chair of preparing committee). 

Banks, Richard C.  2000.  The Cuban Martin in Florida.  Florida Field Naturalist 28: 50-52. 

Banks, R. C., and M. R. Browning.  1999.  Questions about Thayer’s Gull.  Ontario Birds 17:124-130. 

Dove, Carla J., and R. C. Banks.  1999.  A taxonomic study of Crested Caracaras (Falconidae).  Wilson Bull. 111: 330-339. 

Banks, R. C.  1997.  The name of Lawrence’s Flycatcher.  Pp. 21-24 in The era of Allan R. Phillips: A Festschrift, ed. by R. W. Dickerman.