Richard Paul Scofield

1966 -

country of citizenship: New Zealand

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Otago

occupation: zoologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, botanical collector

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2023-02-06

Non-breeding behaviour in the Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi): insights from modelling moulting patterns and stable isotope analyses

Hendrik Schultz, Phil F. Battley, Anne C Gaskett, Todd E. Dennis, Graeme Arthur Taylor, Richard Paul Scofield, Matt Rayner, Alan Tennyson, Craig Millar
2022-07-20

A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand

Trevor Worthy, Richard Paul Scofield, Vanesa De Pietri, Suzanne J. Hand, Mike Archer
2021-12-08

Correction to ‘Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand’

Trevor Worthy, Suzanne J. Hand, Mike Archer, Richard Paul Scofield, Vanesa De Pietri
2021-03-19

Using Holocene fossils to model the future: Distribution of climate suitability for tuatara, the last rhynchocephalian

Scott Jarvie, Trevor Worthy, Frédérik Saltré, Richard Paul Scofield, Philip Seddon, Alison Cree
2020-04-18

Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution

Richard Paul Scofield, Daniel T. Ksepka, Lindsay Zanno, Maria Eugenia Leone Gold, Erich Jarvis, Julia Clarke, Stig A. Walsh, Mark Norell, Ryan S. Rothman, Estelle Bourdon, Carrie S Mongle, Daniel J. Field, Edward L. Braun
2020-08-12

Ancient crested penguin constrains timing of recruitment into seabird hotspot

Richard Paul Scofield, Alan Tennyson, Daniel T. Ksepka, Tracy A. Heath
2020-11-11

First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals

Felix G. Marx, Richard Paul Scofield, Alan Tennyson
2020-11-07

A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia

Vanesa De Pietri, Trevor Worthy, Richard Paul Scofield, Justin J. F. J. Jansen, Alice Cibois, Theresa L. Cole, Kieren J. Mitchell, Jamie R. Wood, Alan J. Cooper
2020-11-11

Correction to 'The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae'

Vanesa De Pietri, Richard Paul Scofield, Trevor Worthy
2020-10-05

Comprehensive evidence for subspecies designations in Cook’s Petrel Pterodroma cookii with implications for conservation management

Matt Rayner, Ayla van Loenen, Lara Dawn Shepherd, Richard Paul Scofield, Alan Tennyson, Michael Bunce, Tammy E. Steeves
2019-02

Ancient DNA of crested penguins: Testing for temporal genetic shifts in the world’s most diverse penguin clade

Nicolas Dussex, Ursula Ellenberg, Nicolas James Rawlence, Richard Paul Scofield, Theresa L. Cole, Jonathan M. Waters, Alan Tennyson, Colin M. Miskelly, Thomas Mattern, Jamie R. Wood, David M Houston
2019-02-10

Mitogenomic evidence of close relationships between New Zealand's extinct giant raptors and small-sized Australian sister-taxa

Michael Knapp, Nicolas Dussex, Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert, Richard Paul Scofield, Ross Barnett, Simon Y. W. Ho
2019-02-15

Mitochondrial Genomes from New Zealand’s Extinct Adzebills (Aves: Aptornithidae: Aptornis) Support a Sister-Taxon Relationship with the Afro-Madagascan Sarothruridae

Kieren J. Mitchell, Michael Bunce, Richard Paul Scofield, Trevor Worthy, Alexander Peter Boast, Alan Tennyson, Brendan Chapman, Alan J. Cooper
2019-08-07

Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand

Trevor Worthy, Suzanne J. Hand, Mike Archer, Richard Paul Scofield, Vanesa De Pietri
2019-08-12

Leg bones of a new penguin species from the Waipara Greensand add to the diversity of very large-sized Sphenisciformes in the Paleocene of New Zealand

Gerald Mayr, Vanesa De Pietri, Richard Paul Scofield
2019-09-17

Oldest, smallest and phylogenetically most basal pelagornithid, from the early Paleocene of New Zealand, sheds light on the evolutionary history of the largest flying birds

Gerald Mayr, Vanesa De Pietri, Richard Paul Scofield
2018-01-10

A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand.

Suzanne J. Hand, Trevor Worthy, Vanesa De Pietri, Steven W. Salisbury, Mike Archer, Richard Paul Scofield, Alan Tennyson, Gregg F. Gunnell, Nancy B. Simmons
2018-06

On the taxonomic composition and phylogenetic affinities of the recently proposed clade Vegaviidae Agnolín et al., 2017 ‒ neornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Hemisphere

Trevor Worthy, Gerald Mayr, Richard Paul Scofield
2018-02-27

Flightless rails (Aves: Rallidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, Otago, New Zealand

Trevor Worthy, Alan Tennyson, Suzanne J. Hand, Mike Archer, Richard Paul Scofield
2018-05-07

A new species of lapwing (Charadriidae: Vanellus) from the late Pliocene of central Australia

Trevor Worthy, Richard Paul Scofield
2018-07-24

Subsistence practices, past biodiversity, and anthropogenic impacts revealed by New Zealand-wide ancient DNA survey

Frederik Valeur Seersholm, Theresa L. Cole, Michael Stat, Nicolas James Rawlence, Lara Dawn Shepherd, Alan Tennyson, Richard Paul Scofield, Luke Easton
2018-10-24

Ancient DNA of crested penguins: Testing for temporal genetic shifts in the world's most diverse penguin clade

Nicolas James Rawlence, Alan Tennyson, Richard Paul Scofield, Ursula Ellenberg, Theresa L. Cole, Nicolas Dussex, Jonathan M. Waters, Colin M. Miskelly, Thomas Mattern, Jamie R. Wood, David M Houston
2018-10-17

Evidence for breeding of Megadyptes penguins in the North Island at the time of human arrival

Nicolas James Rawlence, Alan Tennyson, Richard Paul Scofield, Theresa L. Cole, Alexander Jacob Fischer Verry
2017-02-21

Settling the name Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 for the Wandering Albatross by neotypification

Richard Paul Scofield, Alan Tennyson, Richard Schodde
2017-08-10

Speciation, range contraction and extinction in the endemic New Zealand King Shag complex

Martyn Kennedy, Matt Rayner, Jonathan M. Waters, Hamish Spencer, Nicolas James Rawlence, Alan Tennyson, Richard Paul Scofield, Charlotte E Till, Luke Easton, Rob Schuckard
2017-06-15

A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola

Samuel T. Turvey, James P. Hansford, Richard Paul Scofield
2017-12-12

A Paleocene penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes.

Vanesa De Pietri, Gerald Mayr, Alan Tennyson, Richard Paul Scofield
2017-02-23

A new fossil from the mid-Paleocene of New Zealand reveals an unexpected diversity of world's oldest penguins

Gerald Mayr, Vanesa De Pietri, Richard Paul Scofield
2017-07-01

Ancient DNA and morphometric analysis reveal extinction and replacement of New Zealand's unique black swans

Nicolas James Rawlence, Richard Paul Scofield, Jonathan M. Waters, Alan Tennyson, Luke Easton
2017-11-02

A well-preserved new mid-paleocene penguin (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Waipara Greensand in New Zealand

Gerald Mayr, Richard Paul Scofield
2017-04-19

Recent advances in avian palaeobiology in New Zealand with implications for understanding New Zealand’s geological, climatic and evolutionary histories

Trevor Worthy, Richard Paul Scofield
2017

Bone stable isotopes indicate a high trophic position for New Zealand’s extinct South Island adzebill (Aptornis defossor) (Gruiformes: Aptornithidae)

Jamie R. Wood, Richard Paul Scofield, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Chris Lalas

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