José Fernando Pacheco

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José Fernando Pacheco (* 1961 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian ornithologist and biologist . His research focus is the neotropical avifauna , in particular bioacoustics .

Life

Pacheco met the naturalist Herbert Franzoni Berla (1912–1985) in 1977 at the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , who supported him in his early ornithological research. At the same time he began to travel to many places in the southeast, especially in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais . Pacheco later joined the army, where he stayed for eleven years, working with computers in the 1980s. In the early 1980s there were several meetings with Helmut Sick , who was very interested in some of Pacheco's observations. At the invitation of Dante Martins Teixeira , who became an employee of the National Museum after Sicks left, he inventoried a large part of the bird collection between 1980 and 1987, which enabled him to have a great deal of knowledge about the identification of the bellows. In 1985 Pacheco founded the Clube de Observadores de Aves (COA), an organizer of bird watching excursions , with Luiz Claudio Marigo, Luiz Pedreira Gonzaga , Paulo Sérgio Moreira da Fonseca and Lila Ferrez . In 1986 he made the acquaintance of Bret M. Whitney , from whom he learned a lot about bird call recording . Pacheco conducted over 1500 excursions, most of which were accompanied by other COA colleagues. In 1987, COA employees Cacilda Carvalho and Fernando Mauro de Carvalho succeeded in rediscovering the black-headed ant catcher ( Formicivora erythronotos ), a species of bird that has not been seen for over 100 years. In 1988 Pacheco reported on it in the Bulletin of the Ornithologists' Club. From 1990 to 1998 he worked in various positions at the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. After studying biology from 1999 at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , he obtained a master's degree in wildlife biology in 2001 .

Due to his extensive professional experience, as an avifauna specialist or as coordinator of the environmental consultancy Meio Biótico, he was involved in the creation of dozen of fauna studies for environmental impact assessments, management plans and various environmental reports, in which almost all Brazilian states have contributed. At Oikos, as an avifauna specialist, he was involved as an expert for environmental impact assessments in road construction projects.

To Pacheco's first descriptions of the include Bahia Laubtyrann ( Phylloscartes beckeri ), the plantation panties ( Acrobatornis fonsecai ), the Caatingaameisenfänger ( Herpsilochmus sellowi ), the Feisttapaculo ( Scytalopus petrophilus ), the Braunschwingentapaculo ( Scytalopus gonzagai ) and the subspecies Formicivora serrana interposita and Formicivora serrana littoralis (formerly an independent species ) of the serra ant-catcher and the subspecies of the Chordeiles nacunda coryi of the white-bellied nightjar . In 2006 Pacheco and Alexandre Aleixo set up the monogeneric family Donacobiidae for the reed spotter and in the same year with Renato Caparroz the monotypical genus Alipiopsitta for the yellow-bellied amazon .

Dedication names

In 2005 Giovanni N. Maurício honored Pacheco in the Art epitheton of the Planalto Tapaculos ( Scytalopus pachecoi ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ JF Pacheco: Black-hooded Antwren Formicivora [Myrmotherula] erythronotos re-discovered in Brazil. Bulletin of the Ornithologists' Club No. 108, 1988, pp. 179-182
personal data
SURNAME Pacheco, José Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian ornithologist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro