James A. Jobling

James A. Jobling is a British naturalist and author. Jobling is known for his work on the taxonomy of birds, writing and publishing one of the most comprehensive reference works on the etymology of the names of genera and species of birds around the world.

Biography Jobling was initially a civil servant with experience in finance and land registration. Since childhood, he had an interest in the natural world, especially in birds and their names. Jobling became closely associated with Lynx Edicions through the creation and editing of the HBW Alive Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology (2014–2020), which was later incorporated into the Handbook of the Birds of the World. This work would later be made a part of the online database Birds of the World.

He was a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and a committee member of the British Ornithologists' Club.

Publications Pseudopipra pipra, originally considered by Carl Linnaeus as congeneric with Pipra pipra. Jobling, along with Guy Kirwan and colleagues, provided its new genus name in a review of phylogenetic evidence.

Jobling, James A. (1996). The Prince and the Republican. Bull. BOC, 116(5).