John W. Fitzpatrick

John W. Fitzpatrick

John Weaver Fitzpatrick (born September 17, 1951 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) is an American ornithologist who is primarily known for his research work on the South American avifauna and for his protection projects for the Florida bush jay ( Aphelocoma coerulescens ).

Life

In 1974 Fitzpatrick graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Harvard University . In 1978 he was with the dissertation Foraging behavior and adaptive radiation in the avian family Tyrannidae at Princeton University for Ph.D. PhD in biology. From 1978 to 1989 Fitzpatrick was director of the ornithological department and chairman of the department of zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

From 1988 to 1995 he was the executive director of Archbold Biological Station, a private research foundation in central Florida. In 1995 Fitzpatrick became director (Luis Agassiz Fuertes Director) of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca , New York . He is also a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University . He was also a member of the board of directors of the national association of the National Audubon Society of Florida and of The Nature Conservancy .

He has been an elected member of the American Ornithologists' Union since 1979 . From 2000 to 2002 he was president of this organization.

Fitzpatrick devoted much of his previous research to the neotropical avifauna. He undertook several expeditions to remote regions of South America, particularly to the western Amazon basin and the foothills of the Andes . In 1996 he published a book entitled Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation . Fitzpatrick was first described or co-descriptor of six new species of birds, including the tying wings Wren ( Henicorhina leucoptera ), the Cinnamon Screech Owl ( Otus peter soni ), the Blue sun nymph ( Heliangelus regalis ), the Manu-Ameisenfänger ( Cercomacra manu ), the Zimtbrust -Todytyrann ( Hemitriccus cinnamomeipectus ) and the cinnamon-faced leaf tyrant ( Phylloscartes parkeri ) as well as the subspecies Atlapetes leucopterus paynteri of the mirror bushhammer .

2004 Fitzpatrick was co-author of the chapter on the family of the tyrant (Tyrannidae) in the ninth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

In 2005, an article by Fitzpatrick and other ornithologists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (including Tim Gallagher ) caused a sensation in the journal Science announcing the rediscovery of the ivory woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis ).

Fitzpatrick has worked on two conservation projects, including the 1992 Hawaiian crow conservation program . and from 2007 to 2008 in a research project to rediscover the ivory woodpecker.

Fitzpatrick is currently working on the ecology, conservation biology and population genetics of the endangered Florida bush jay as part of a long-term study that he began in 1969 in collaboration with Glenn Everett Woolfenden (1930-2007) with a population of color-ringed birds. Fitzpatrick and Woolfenden published a book about this project in 1985 called The Florida Scrub Jay - Demography of a Cooperative-Breeding Bird .

Awards and dedication names

In 1985, Fitzpatrick and Woolfenden received the William Brewster Medal , the highest honor in the American Ornithologists' Union, for their long-term study of population research, social behavior and protection of the Florida bushjay . In 2005 he was awarded the Eisenmann Medal by the Linnean Society of New York. In 2011 he was honored with the Marion A. Jenkinson AOU Service Award, a prize donated in honor of Marion Anne Jenkinson (1937–1994), the former treasurer of the American Ornithologists' Union. In 2012, Glenn F. Seeholzer and his colleagues paid tribute to Fitzpatrick in the species epithet of the newly discovered syrabeard bird ( Capito fitzpatricki ), in recognition of his services to research into the Peruvian avifauna.

Works (selection)

• (with IJ Lovette): Handbook of Bird Biology 3rd edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2016. ISBN 978-1118291054
• A. Coulon, JW Fitzpatrick, R. Bowman, IJ Lovette: Mind the gap: genetic distance increases with habitat gap size in Florida scrub jays . In: Biology Letters , 23 August 2012, 8 (4), pp. 582-585, doi: 10.1098 / rsbl.2011.1244 , PMID 22357936 . Epub February 22, 2012
• A. Coulon, JW Fitzpatrick, R. Bowman, IJ Lovette: Effects of habitat fragmentation on effective dispersal of Florida scrub-jays . In: Conservation Biology , August 24, 2010, (4), pp. 1080-1088, doi: 10.1111 / j.1523-1739.2009.01438.x , PMID 20151985 . Epub February 11, 2010.
• (with FB Gill, M. Powers, KV Rosenberg): Introducing eBird: the union of passion and purpose . In: North American Birds , 2002, 56, pp. 11-13.
• (with DF Stotz): A new species of tyrannulet ( Phylloscartes ) from the Andean foothills of Peru and Bolivia . In: Ornithological Monographs , 48, 1997, pp. 37-44, doi: 10.2307 / 40157526
• (with Douglas F. Stotz , Theodore A Parker, Debra K Moskovits): Neotropical Birds. 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-77629-3 .
• (with DE Willard): Cercomacra manu, a new species of antbird from southwestern Amazonia . In: Auk , 107, 1990, pp. 239-245.
• (with GE Woolfenden): The Florida Scrub Jay: Demography of a Cooperative-breeding Bird . Monogr. Pop. Biol. No. 20, Princeton University Press, 1985

Web links

• Hooked on Peru . In: Living Bird Magazine Spring , 2008; Article about Fitzpatrick's ornithological work in Peru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The role of the research museums: hearing before the Task Force on Science Policy of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session. April 17, 1985, p. 133.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile John Fitzpatrik Cornell University
3. ↑ Database: PsycINFO
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Home Study Course in Bird Biology
5. ^ Archbold Biological Station / Saving The Florida Scrub Of The Lake Wales Ridge . ( Memento of the original of July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ VIVO Research and Expertise across Cornell John Weaver Fitzpatrick .
7. ^ ^{A b} John W. Fitzpatrick: 2011 recipient of the Marion Jenkinson AOU Service Award .
8. ↑ American Ornithologists' Union selects Cornell Lab of Ornithology Director John W. Fitzpatrick as president for two-year term .
9. ↑ John W. Fitzpatrick, Martjan Lammertink, M. David Luneau, Tim W. Gallagher, Bobby R. Harrison, Gene M. Sparling, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh, Elliott CH Swarthout, Peter H. Wrege, Sara Barker Swarthout, Marc S. Dantzker, Russell A. Charif, Timothy R. Barksdale, JV Remsen, Scott D. Simon, Douglas Zollner: Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) Persists in Continental North America . In: Science . tape 308 , no. 5727 , June 3, 2005, ISSN  1095-9203 , p. 1460–1462 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1114103 ( sciencemag.org ).
10. ↑ WD Duckworth, TJ Cade, HL Carson, S. Derrickson, J. Fitzpatrick: The scientific bases for the preservation of the Hawaiian Crow. National Academy Press, Washington DC 1992.
11. ^ The Search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker
12. ↑ ^{a b} Brewster Award, 1985 (PDF; 171 kB) In: The Auk , Vol 103, No. 2, 1986
13. ↑ 12/2013 LSNY Newsletter Volume 67, No. 7. ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Linnaen Society of New York 
14. ↑ Glenn F. Seeholzer, Benjamin M. Winger, Michael G. Harvey, Daniel Cáceres A., Jason D. Weckstein: A new species of barbet (Capitonidae: Capito) from the Cerros del Sira, Ucayali, Peru . In: The Auk . tape 129 , no. 3 , January 1, 2012, doi : 10.1525 / auk.2012.11250 ( mharvey.org [PDF]). mharvey.org ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.