Frank Lambert (ornithologist)

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Frank Lambert (actually Francis Robert Lambert ; * 1958 in Brighton ) is a British ornithologist and ecologist who works primarily in Southeast Asia and South America.

Life

At the age of 10, Lambert was fascinated by bird watching . At the age of 17 he accompanied the zoologist couple Tim and Carol Inskipp on their first excursion outside of Great Britain, to the Camargue . In 1978 he undertook an eight-month expedition to Nepal, Assam and Afghanistan together with ornithologists Richard Grimmett , Dick Filby and Les Norton. In 1981, an excursion to Thailand with Grimmett and Filby followed. In 1983 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in ecology. In 1985 he visited the Sangihe Islands with the Dutch ornithologist Frank Rozendaal in order to rediscover the Sangihedickkopf ( Coracornis sanghirensis ) and the silver flycatcher ( Eutrichomyias rowleyi ), two long-lost bird species. Even if the Rozendaal and Lambert expedition was a failure, further searches in the 1990s confirmed that both species still exist. In 1987 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "Fig-eating and dispersal by birds in a Malaysian lowland rainforest" for Ph.D. at the University of Aberdeen . He then worked as a post-doctoral student in the Danum Valley in Sabah . Lambert's main research interests are the ecology and avifauna of tropical forests. Other topics of his work include forest policy and the use and management of natural resources . Lambert is also a bioacoustic specialist who has recorded the bird calls of 3295 species in 35 countries. During his avifaunistic studies in the 1980s and 1990s, Lambert also traveled to little-explored regions such as Karakelong in the Indonesian Talaud Islands , where he discovered two new bird species, the Karakelong keel rail ( Amaurornis magnirostris ) and the Talaud island rail ( Gymnocrex talaudensis ). Together with Pamela C. Rasmussen , he described the Sangihe scops owl ( Otus collari ) in 1998 . In 2002 Lambert relocated his research area to South America, particularly to Colombia and Peru. In 2007 he was one of the first to describe the endangered red chalk tyrant ( Cnipodectes superrufus ), which was discovered in 1990 in the Manú National Park and first filmed in 2003 by Lambert in its natural habitat. Lambert has been working in Malaysia since 2009.

Lambert wrote over 50 scientific articles, including some for the English-language Indonesian bird journal Kukila and a book in 1996 entitled Pittas, Broadbills and Asities , illustrated by Martin Woodcock .

literature

  • Erik Hirschfeld: Portrait of Frank Lambert In: The Rare Birds Yearbook 2008, MagDig Media Ltd., Shrewsbury 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552607-3-5 , pp. 30–31

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Frank Lambert at xeno-canto