David W. Winkler

David Ward Winkler (born June 2, 1955 in Sacramento , California ) is an American ornithologist .

Life

From 1974 to 1975 Winkler worked as an ornithologist in the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge . In 1975 he was an ornithologist with the United States Forest Service . From 1975 to 1977 he was a zoological advisor at the University of California, Davis . In 1977 he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Davis in Zoology.

From 1978 to 1981 he was a teaching assistant and research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the fields of embryology , natural history , population ecology and general biology . In 1983 he was with the dissertation Ecological and behavioral determinants of clutch size: the California Gull (Larus californicus) in the Great Basin to the Ph.D. PhD in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. During his studies in Berkeley he worked with the ornithologist Frank Pitelka , among others .

From 1983 to 1984 he carried out research on a Thord Gray and Fulbright grant at the University of Gothenburg , where he worked with Malte Andersson . From 1984 to 1985 he spent a NATO - postdoctoral scholarship at the Edward Gray Institute of University of Oxford in England. From 1985 to 1988 he was a lecturer in ecology , evolution and ornithology and a research fellow in the Department of Ecology and Systematics at Cornell University . From 1988 to 1994 he was an assistant professor and bird curator in the Ecology and Systematics and Life Sciences departments of Cornell University. In 1992 he was visiting professor for the course Behavior, Life Cycle and Population Development Ecology at Ben Gurion University in the Negev in Israel . From 1994 to 2001 he was an adjunct professor and bird curator in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. In 1995 he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Zoology at the University of Washington . Since 2002 he has been a full professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. From 2011 to 2017 he was director of the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.

In 1976 Winkler studied the avifauna at Mono Lake , about which he published the text An Ecologicial Study of Mono Lake, California in 1979 . In preparation for his doctoral thesis, he returned there in the early 1980s to research the life cycle of the breeding Californian gulls . In the late 1980s, Winkler's research focused on the life cycle and migration of swallows . Another project is Golondrinas de las Americas on the reproductive biology of the swallow genus Tachycineta in North , Central and South America .

In 1996 Winkler wrote the entry on the California gull and in 2011 the entry on the marsh swallow in the Birds of North America work of Frank Gill . In 2014 he published the book Sierra Wings - Birds of the Mono Lake Basin with the photographer Marie Read and in 2015 the work Bird Families of the World, An Invitation to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds in collaboration with Irby Lovette and Shawn M. Billerman .

Winkler is a member of the American Ornithologists 'Union , the Association of Field Ornithologists, the British Ornithologists' Union , the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Wilson Ornithological Society.

Winkler has been married to the biologist Amy Reed McCune since 1986. He is the father of twin daughters.

Web links

• Official website at Cornell University (with curriculum vitae and bibliography)