John Marzluff

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John Mark Marzluff (* 1958 in Lawrence ) is an American ornithologist and ecologist . He is a professor at the University of Washington . His research focuses on the conservation biology of Hawaii and Washington and the study of corvidae , on which he has written several popular science books.

Life

John Marzluff was born in 1958 as the third son of Joseph O. Marzluff and Elizabeth P. Marzluff (née Polli) in Lawrence, Kansas . After graduating from school, he enrolled at the University of Montana , where he graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Biology. Then he moved to Flagstaff to attend the Northern Arizona University 's Master to make. He carried out his studies there under Russel P. Balda , who at that time was studying an urban population of black- billed jays ( Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus ). During his work with Balda, Marzluff developed his interest in corvids , which would determine his further scientific work. In 1982 he met his future wife, Colleen Sanford, who also studied at Northern Arizona University and worked under Balda as a technical assistant. The two married in 1985. 

John Marzluff received his doctorate in 1987 with a thesis on the social behavior of naked jays and shortly after met the entomologist Bernd Heinrich . His dissertation was entitled Individual Recognition and the Organization of Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) Societies . Heinrich had turned to ornithology in his homeland of Maine and dealt with common ravens ( Corvus corax ). He invited Marzluff to study animal behavior in Maine, which John and Colleen Marzluff discussed. They left Arizona and moved to live with Heinrich on Webb Lake . Research on the ravens there took three years. It was borne by the University of Vermont and funded by the National Science Foundation with 50,000 US dollars , but this only poorly covered the costs and forced the Marzluffs to cut costs. They later processed the time in Maine in the book Dog Days, Raven Nights . Subsequently, John Marzluff received a position at the University of Washington , where he now holds a professorship. He and Colleen Marzluff have two daughters.

Scientific and journalistic work

Photo of a naked jay on a metal arch.
A North American naked jay . Marzluff and Balda's monograph on this species is still considered a standard work today.

During his scientific career, John Marzluff mainly dealt with corvids. The focus was on the naked jay, the common raven, urban populations of the American crow ( Corvus brachyrhynchos ) and the guam crow ( Corvus kubaryi ). In addition to several hundred specialist publications, Marzluff has also written various popular science books on this subject. He mostly worked closely with Tony Angell as an illustrator or co-author. The monograph The Pinyon Jay , which Marzluff wrote together with Russel P. Balda, is still considered a standard work on the naked jay. For In the Company of Crows and Ravens he and Angell received the 2006 Washington State Book Award . Marzluff co-authored the Corvian Chapter of the Handbook of the Birds of the World with Steven Madge and is the head of the USFWS Recovery Team to protect the Mariana Crows. In 2011, John and Colleen Marzluff processed their research stay in Maine in Dog Days, Raven Nights . Together with Tony Angell, Marzluff wrote another book about ravens and crows in 2012 , Gifts of the Crow .

literature

  • John M. Marzluff, Russel P. Balda: The Pinyon Jay. Behavioral Ecology of a Colonial and Cooperative Corvid. Academic Press, San Diego 1992. ISBN 0-85661-064-X .
  • John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell: In the Company of Crows and Ravens. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2005. ISBN 0-300-10076-0 .
  • John Marzluff, Colleen Marzluff: Dog Days, Raven Nights. Yale University Press, New Haven 2011. ISBN 978-0-300-16711-5 .
  • John Marzluff, Tony Angell: Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans. Free Press, San Diego 2012. ISBN 1-4391-9873-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Warren McElwain 2011 . Retrieved April 10, 2011.
  2. ↑ Marzluff & Balda 1992 , pp. Xvi – xvii.
  3. ↑ Marzluff & Marzluff 2011 , pp. 1–2.
  4. ↑ Marzluff & Marzluff 2011 , pp. 40–42.
  5. ↑ a b SEFS 2011 . Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  6. ^ Marzluff & Angell 2005 , p. Xix.
  7. ^ Marzluff & Angell 2012 .

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personal data
SURNAME Marzluff, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marzluff, John Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist and ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Lawrence