Richard Holdaway (biologist)

Richard Noel Holdaway is a New Zealand ornithologist.^[1] With a doctorate in avian palaeobiology and systematics^[2][3] and a BSc in neurophysiology and ornithology, he has studied birds for three decades primarily in New Zealand.^[4] In 2003 he received (together with Trevor Worthy)^[5] the 2003 D. L. Serventy Medal^[6][7] Holdaway is director (and owner)^[8] of Palaecol Research Ltd in Christchurch, New Zealand.^[9] He was recognized for his findings (together with Chris Jacomb)^[10] on the extinction of the New Zealand terrestrial megafauna by the University of Otago.^[11] His work has also appeared in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology,^[12] Nature Communications,^[13] the US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health and Royal Society Publishing^[14] among others.^[15]