James Franklin Clements (October 31, 1927 – June 9, 2005) was an American ornithologist, author and businessman.
[citation needed] He received his PhD from California Western University in 1975.
Clements was mostly finished with the sixth edition at the time of his death, and responsibility for the series was taken up by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (Cornell Lab) by arrangement with Clements's widow, Karen.
[1][2] The specific epithet of a bird, the Iquitos gnatcatcher, Polioptila clementsi, is named after him.
[3] He died at Tri-City Hospital, Oceanside, California of complications associated with acute myeloid leukemia.