Hans Winkler (ornithologist)

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Hans-Christoph Winkler (born April 22, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ornithologist and ethologist .

Life

From 1969 to 1972 Winkler worked at the Institute for Comparative Behavioral Research in Vienna. In 1971 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Biology of the Syrian Woodpecker for Dr. phil. at the University of Vienna . From 1972 to 1973 and again from 1974 to 1984 he worked at the Limnological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1972 to 1981 he lectured on animal behavior at the University of Salzburg . From 1973 to 1974 he conducted research in the ornithological department of the American Museum of Natural History on a grant from the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund . In 1980 he was qualified as a professor at the University of Vienna.

From 1985 to 1987 Winkler was on the Presidium of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he has been a corresponding member since 1994. From 1991 to 2002 he was director of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Behavioral Research. Since 1991 he has been a member of the International Ornithological Committee. In 1994 he became a member of the scientific advisory board and from 2004 to 2014 Winkler was chairman of the National Park Neusiedler See - Seewinkel . He has been a member of the German Ornithological Society since 1994 , where he was elected to the board from 2007 to 2014. From 1965 to 2014 he was on the scientific advisory board at BirdLife Austria . From 1996 to 2013 he was a member of the European Ornithologists' Union (EOU). He is also a member of WWF Austria , where he was on the scientific advisory board from 2007 to 2014, and of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East (OSME). From 2006 to 2014 he was an honorary member of the American Ornithologists' Union .

Winkler took part in various projects in Central Europe , South , Southwest and West Asia as well as in South America . His interests include the integrated behavior, ecology and morphology of birds with an emphasis on comparative approaches. Woodpeckers , buzzards and fish-eating birds in particular are repeatedly the subject of his studies. He pays special attention to environmental influences that influence behavior, especially communication, pairing systems and cognition , as well as the interdependencies between behavior and morphology. Further aspects of his work are inventory monitoring and nature conservation.

1995 Winkler published together with David A. Christie and the illustrator David Nurney the work Woodpeckers: A Guide to the Woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks of the World , which by the journal British Birds was elected bird book of the year 1995 and today the standard literature on woodpeckers counts. In 2002 he wrote the chapter on the family of the woodpeckers (Picidae) in the Handbook of the Birds of the World together with Christie . Winkler's article has appeared in national and international journals and journals, including numerous others in the Journal of Avian Biology , Ibis , Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History , Journal of Ornithology , Oecologia , Wilson Bulletin , Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie , Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna , Vogelwarte , Zoologica Scripta , Acta Zoologica Sinica , Limicola , Oikos and in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society .

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