Alan F. Poole

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Alan Forsyth Poole (born December 7, 1948 ), mostly Alan F. Poole in publications , is an American ornithologist and ecologist . His research interests are in the osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ).

Life

Poole received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Princeton University in 1970 . In 1976 he graduated from the Master of Science degree in forest science at Yale University . In 1984 he was with the dissertation Reproductive limitation in Coastal Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus): An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective on the Ph.D. PhD in ecology from Boston University's Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole , Massachusetts . In preparation for this work he spent six years in the coastal regions of Florida and New England , where he studied the way of life and social behavior of ospreys. In 1989, Cambridge University Press published the book Ospreys: A Natural and Unnatural History , in which Poole complained, among other things, that the use of the insecticide DDT had reduced the osprey population by 50 to 90 percent in large parts of the United States .

From 1992 until his retirement in 2015, Poole was involved in the Birds of North America encyclopedia project . Until 2002, he was together with Frank B. Gill and Peter R. Stettenheim (1928-2013) co-editor of the print edition, which was published in 716 individual issues (or in 18 volumes with 18,000 pages) under the title The Birds of North America: Life Histories for the 21st Century appeared. From 2004 he was one of the contributors (e.g. about the osprey, the herring gull , the merlin , the North American bittern or the Wilson thrush ) of the online version, which is maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology . In 1994 Poole wrote the family chapter on the osprey in the second volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

In 2014 Poole presented the documentary Ospreys of New England .

In 2019 he published his second book Ospreys: The Revival of a Global Raptor .

literature

  • About the Author (s) In: PG Rodewald (Ed.): Birds of North America , Version 3.0, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA (subscription required)

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SURNAME Poole, Alan F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poole, Alan Forsyth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist and ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1948