Harold F. Greeney

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Harold Francis Greeney III (born February 23, 1972 ) is an American biologist . His interests are in ornithology , entomology and natural history .

Life

From 1989 Greeney studied biology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem , North Carolina , where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1993 . In 1994 he moved to the University of Arizona , where he graduated with a Master of Science in Entomology in 1999 with his thesis Insect fauna of phytotelmata in lowland Ecuador .

Greeney first went to Ecuador to study butterflies under the guidance of Philip James DeVries and to work as a nature guide in Ecuador's Amazon region. In 1999, he founded the Yanayacu Biological Station, a research station in the cloud forests of the east in Ecuador, where he devotes himself to biodiversity studies of invertebrates and vertebrates. In 2008 he was with the dissertation Breeding ecology of the spotted Barbtail (Premnoplex brunnescens): a journey into the unknown world of a tropical understory furnariid about the reproductive behavior of Hell Throat barbed tail ( Premnoplex brunnescens ) under the direction of Tadeusz Stawarczyk at the University of Warsaw for Ph.D. PhD in ornithology.

From February to May 2014 he worked as a scientific advisor on the three episodes Animal Homes: The Nest , Animal Homes: Location, Location, Location and Animal Homes: Animal Cities of the documentary series Nature . From May 2015 to November 2016 he completed his postdoctoral phase at the University of Arizona, where he dealt with the breeding behavior and the migration ecology of the highland snapper tyrant , with the neotropical migration ecology in the bank area as well as with bird ringing , natural history, ecology and nature conservation.

In 2002 he first described the breeding biology of the anthracite ant bird ( Dysithamnus occidentalis ). In 2011 he was one of the first to describe the brackish wasp species Protapanteles eryphanidis , which parasitizes on caterpillars of the genus Eryphanis .

Greeney wrote more than 225 peer-reviewed biological research articles on the ecology, behavior, and evolution of invertebrates and vertebrates . His work on the reproductive biology of Neotropical birds won the 2005 Pamela and Alexander F. Skutch Research Award from the Association of Field Ornithologists. In 2015 Greeney received a Guggenheim grant .

Although he has published information on the nesting behavior of more than 500 species of birds, Greeney is best known for his interest in ant pittas. In June 2018, in collaboration with the illustrator David Beadle, he published his first book entitled Antpittas and Gnateaters , in which all species from the families of the ant pittas (Grallariidae) and the mosquito-eaters (Conopophagidae) are presented with detailed texts, illustrations and photographs.

Dedication names

2003 subspecies Velamysta pupilla greeneyi and 2008 type Eryphanis greeneyi , both from the family of Nymphalidae named (Nymphalidae), by Harold F. Greeney.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Guggenheim scholarship for Harold F. Greeney
personal data
SURNAME Greeney, Harold F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greeney III, Harold Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1972