Hans Löhrl

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Hans Löhrl (born May 25, 1911 in Stuttgart , † June 26, 2001 in Egenhausen , Black Forest ) was a German ornithologist and behavioral scientist .

Life

Hans Löhrl studied biology and geology at the University of Tübingen . After completing his PhD at the University of Munich with the topic Ecological and physiological studies of local Murids and Soriciden he was a volunteer at the bird observatory Rossitten and the southern German ornithological station on the Mettnau in Radolfzell. From 1957 to 1962 he headed the state bird sanctuary for Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg and from 1962 to 1976 the Radolfzell ornithological station of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology . From 1971 to 1979 he was Vice President of the German Ornithological Society (DO-G). Since 1981 he has been an honorary member of the German Ornithologists 'Society (DO-G) and since 1989 of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU).

In honor of Hans Löhrl the German Ornithologists' Society awards since 2007 the Hans-Löhrl price .

Focus

As early as the 1930s, Löhrl did pioneering research into the world of birds with studies on the distribution of the mountain warbler , the white stork population and the migrations of the gray heron . He was particularly interested in researching and observing nuthatches , various titmouse species , the wall creeper , the barn swallow , the flycatcher , the collarcatcher and the cuckoo . In ornithology, the Löhrl effect named after him describes the relationship between the size of nesting holes and the size of the clutch as well as the reproductive success of certain bird species.

Works

Löhrl's scientific work includes 11 books, 296 scientific and 111 popular scientific works.

• Ecological and physiological studies on native murids and soricids . In: Journal of Mammals . Volume 13, pp. 114–160, also: Munich, dissertation, 1940
• The Kleiber (= The New Brehm Library 196). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1957; from the 2nd edition as Die Nuthatch Europe . Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1967; 3rd edition, Westarp, Hohenwarsleben 2005, ISBN 3-89432-644-1
• Animals and us . Ullstein, Berlin Frankfurt am Main Vienna 1968
• This is how you help the birds . Franckh, Stuttgart 1969; 2nd edition, Franckh, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-440-03614-4
• Nesting holes, artificial nests and their inhabitants . DBV-Verlag, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-920220-03-X
• The coal tit (= The new Brehm library 472). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1974; 3rd edition, Westarp, Hohenwarsleben 2004, ISBN 3-89432-824-X
• The Wallcreeper (= The New Brehm Library 498). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1976; 2nd edition, Westarp, Hohenwarsleben 2004, ISBN 3-89432-837-1
• The Barn Swallow (= DBV Ornithology Library, Volume 1). DBV-Verlag, Melsungen 1979, ISBN 3-920220-10-2
• Birds at the feeding place. Bird behavior observed in winter . Franckh, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-44005-018-1 ; 3rd edition, Franckh, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-440-05841-7
• Birds in their world . Franckh, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-440-05313-X
• Etho-ecological studies on different species of nuthatch (Sittidae) (= Bonn Zoological Monographs, No. 26). Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-925382-26-7
• The crested tit (= The new Brehm library 609). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1991, ISBN 3-7403-0251-8

literature

• Jochen Hölzinger : Ecology of Birds - Ecology of Birds, Volume 13, Issue 1 . Ludwigsburg 1991
• Jochen Hölzinger: Ecology of Birds - Ecology of Birds, Volume 23, Issue 2 . Ludwigsburg 2001
• Bärbel Häcker: 50 years of nature conservation history in Baden-Württemberg . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-4472-7

Web links

• Radolfzell Bird Observatory