Jon Fjeldså

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Jon Knud Bøgh Fjeldså (born December 13, 1942 in Hauge i Dalane ) is a Danish zoologist. His main research interests include ornithological studies in the Andes and in Africa, particularly in the areas of molecular analysis , biosystematics , biodiversity in the tropics , macroecology and international bird protection .

Live and act

Jon Fjeldså was born in Norway to the university lecturer Per Fjeldså and his wife Anine Knudsen. He had his first encounters with grebes as a boy . In 1961 he enrolled at the University of Bergen , where he graduated in 1970 with a Master of Science (cand. Real) in zoology. During the semester break he researched the ear diver ( Podiceps auritus ), on which he wrote his doctoral thesis in 1974 with the title “Studier over den nordiske lappedykkers, Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758), forekomst, forhold til sine omgivelser og sociale adfærd”. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen. In 1971 he became a curator at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen and from 1979 to 2018 he held the position of chief curator. In 1996 he was appointed professor.

From 1980 Fjeldså carried out extensive field studies of the avi fauna of Peru , Ecuador , Bolivia and Colombia . The grebes of the Andean seas formed a focus.

From 1987 he turned his attention to the cloud forests in the highlands of the Andes and to strategies for the ecological restoration of highland habitats. Since 1991 he has been doing field work in the African mountain forests, especially in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania. In 1995, with the support of Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Dar es Salaam, he launched the ENRECA project for research into and conservation of biodiversity in Uganda and Tanzania. He was a member of the Danish Secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and co-founder of the Nordic Foundation for Development and Ecology (NORDECO). Since 1990 he has been on the board of the Danish Ornithological Society and from 1994 to 1999 he was a board member of BirdLife International . He also belonged to the Research Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, with the data collection of the family of grebe was assigned to the Red List of Threatened Species. Fjeldså is a member of the Taxonomy Group of the International Ornithological Congress .

In 1987, Jon Fjeldså founded the Institute for Genetic Analysis at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, which houses the second largest ornithological tissue culture collection in the world.

Jon Fjeldså wrote, among other things, the scientific first descriptions for Iringaschnäpper ( Batis crypta ), for Bulo Burti Strangler, who is now a rare Falbmorphe of Erlanger Strangler ( Laniarius erlangeri applies), the Black eyewear Buschammer ( Atlapetes melanopsis ), for Rubehorötel ( Sheppardia aurantiithorax ) , to the rein- spot ant pitta ( Grallaria ridgelyi ), to the Chocótapaculo ( Scytalopus chocoensis ) and to the La Paz tree slip ( Cranioleuca henricae ). In 1999 Niels Krabbe named the brown-backed ant hatchers ( Epinecrophylla fjeldsaai ) in honor of Jon Fjeldså.

In addition to 190 scientific publications, Guide to the Young of European Precocial Birds (1977), Birds of the High Andes (1990) and The Grebes (2004) are among his most important works.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1974: Dyr lever together
  • 1977: Guide to the young of European precocial birds
  • 1977: The Coot and the Moorhen
  • 1978: The Black-headed Gull
  • 1981: Proceedings of the Third Nordic Congress of Ornithology
  • 1982: Comparative Ecology of Peruvian Grebes: A Study of the Mechanisms of Evolution of Ecological Isolation
  • 1987: Birds of Relict Forests in the High Andes of Peru and Bolivia
  • 1988: Comparative Ecology of the Australasian Grebes (Aves: Podicipedidae)
  • 1989: Fuglene i Denmark
  • 1990: Birds of the High Andes: a manual to the birds of the temperate zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America
  • 1990: Working Bibliography of the Grebes of the World
  • 1991: Ugler
  • 1994: Lofotens fugler
  • 1996: Conserving the Biological Diversity of Polylepis Woodlands of the Highland of Peru and Bolivia: A Contribution to * Sustainable Natural Resource Management in the Andes
  • 1997: Grebes: status survey and conservation action plan
  • 1998: Biodiversity and Conservation of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya, Morogoro, Tanzania, 1st-5th December 1997
  • 1999: Cocapata and Saila Pata
  • 2001: Field Guide to the Birds of the Machu Picchu Historical Sanctuary, Peru
  • 2002: Fugle i Greenland
  • 2004: The Grebes: Podicipedidae
  • 2016: Birds of Bolivia - Field Guide (by Sebastian K. Herzog, James Van Remsen, jr. And others, illustrator only)

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SURNAME Fjeldså, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fjeldså, Jon Knud Bøgh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hauge i Dalane, Norway