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Education

B.S. Ohio State University (1953). Wildlife Conservation
M.A. University of California, Berkeley (1958). Zoology
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (1961). Zoology

Research Interests

Current research interests: continue to work on long term study of white-fronted geese. Work has already begun on the next Supplement. Dick hopes to prepare some accounts of geographic variation for the next edition of the Check-list. With Roger Clapp, Richard hopes to finish editing the species accounts for the book on breeding birds of Virginia.

Selected Publications

Banks, R. C., C. Cicero, J. L. Dunn, A. W. Kratter, P. C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, Jr., J. D. Rising, and D. F. Stotz. 2005. Forty-sixth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 122:1026-1031.

Banks, Richard C., and Joseph R. Jehl, Jr. 2005. [Review of] The Metazoan Parasite Fauna of Grebes (Aves: Podicipediformes) and its Relationship to the Birds’ Biology, By Robert W. Storer. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, no. 188. 2000. 90 pp. The Metazoan Parasite Fauna of Loons (Aves: Gaviiformes), its Relationship to the Birds’ Evolutionary History and Biology, and a Comparison with the Parasite Fauna of Grebes, By Robert W. Storer. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, no. 191. 2002. 44 pp. Wilson Bulletin 117(1):106-107.

Woolfenden, G. E., and R. C. Banks. 2004. A Specimen of the Varied Thrush from Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 32: 48-50.

Banks, R. C., C. Cicero, J. L. Dunn, A. W. Kratter, P. C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, Jr., J. D. Rising, and D. F. Stotz. 2004. Forty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 121:985-995

Banks, R. C. 2004. Avian Nomenclature. Foreword, Handbook of Birds of the World, vol. 9.

Banks, R. C., et al. 2003. Forty-fourth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 120:923-931.

Banks, R. C., C. Cicero, J. L. Dunn, A. W. Kratter, P. C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, Jr., J. D. Rising, and D. F. Stotz. 2002. Forty-third Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 119:897-906.

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.