Education

B.S. New Mexico State University (1994), Wildlife Science

Research Interests

Responsible for collection management activities, including specimen preparation, cataloging, curation, loans, information requests, and assisting visitors. Interests are in field work, specimen preparation, bird song recording and archiving, and South American birds.

Selected Publications

Robbins, M. R., M. J. Braun, C. M. Milensky, B. K. Schmidt, W. Prince, N. H. Rice, D. W. Finch, B. J. O'Shea. 2007. Avifauna of the Upper Essequibo River and Acary Mountains, Southern Guyana. Ornitologia Neotropical. 18:339-368. [PDF]

O’Shea, B. J., Milensky, C.M., Claramunt, S., Schmidt, B. K., Gebhard, C. A., Schmitt, C. G., and Erskine, K. T. 2007. New records for Guyana, with descriptions of the voice of Roraiman Nightjar Caprimulgus whitelyi. Bulletin of the British Ornithologist’s Club 127(2): 118-127. [PDF]

Durrant, K. L., J. S. Beadell, F. Ishtiaq, G. R. Graves, S. L. Olson, E. Gering, M. A. Peirce, C. M. Milensky, B. K. Schmidt, C. Gebhard, and R. C. Fleischer. 2006. Avian haematozoa in South America: a comparison of temperate and tropical zones. Ornithological Monographs 60:98-111. [PDF]

Milensky, C. M., W. Hinds, A. Aleixo, M. C. Lima. 2005. Birds, in Checklist of the Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Guiana Shield. In: Tom Hollowell and Robert Reynolds (eds.). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 13:43-74.

Rice, N.H. and C.M. Milensky. 2005. The Nest and Nestlings of the Wing-banded Antbird (Myrmornis torquata) from Southern Guyana. Wilson Bulletin 117(1):103-105. [PDF]

Robbins, M.B., M. J. Braun, C. J. Huddleston , D.W. Finch & C. M. Milensky. 2005. First Guyana Records, Natural History and Systematics of the White-naped Seedeater Dolospingus fringilloides. Ibis 147:334-341. [PDF]

Braun, M. J., M. B. Robbins, C. M. Milensky, B. J. O'Shea, B. R. Barber, W. Hinds, and W. S. Prince. 2003. New Birds for Guyana from Mts Roraima and Ayanganna. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 123:24-32. [PDF]

Dickinson, E. C., S. Eck and C.M. Milensky 2002. Eastern Races of the Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758. Systematic Notes on Asian Birds 31. Zoologische Verhandelingen. 201-203.

Hubbard, J..P., C. Dove, and C. Milensky. 2001. The Eskimo Curlew in New Mexico: A Probable 1854 Specimen Record from Dona Ana County. New Mexico Ornithological Society Bulletin 29(4):67-74.

Hubbard, J.P., C. Dove, and C. Milensky. 2001. T.C. Henry's Harlan's Hawk and Other 1850's Kansas Birds. Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin 52(4):42-46.