Mario Cohn imprisonment

Mario Cohn-Haft (born December 12, 1961 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) is an American ornithologist who lives and works in Brazil .

Life

In 1974 Cohn moved to Williamsburg , where he devoted himself to bird watching . After graduating from Northampton High School in 1979, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire in 1983 . He then worked for several years as a research assistant at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory in California and at the Long Point Bird Observatory in Canada before working as a bird ringer in Manaus , Brazil, from 1987 . In 1995 he graduated with the thesis Dietary specialization by lowland tropical rainforest birds: Forest interior versus canopy and edge habitats at Tulane University in New Orleans , Louisiana , with a Master of Arts. In 2000 he was awarded the dissertation A case study in Amazonian biogeography: Vocal and DNA sequence variation in Hemitriccus flycatcher under the direction of James V. Remsen at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for Ph.D. PhD.

In 2001, Cohn moved to Manaus, where he became a research assistant and bird curator at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).

His research interests in the Amazon area include distribution and taxonomy, including expedition results and the description of new species. In 2013 he published together with colleagues, including Bret M. Whitney , descriptions of four new species from the Brazilian Amazon region in the Handbook of the Birds of the World Special Volume, including the Hafferblaurabe ( Campina Jay ), the black-necked Ameisenfänger ( Herpsilochmus praedictus ), the Aripuanaameisenfänger ( Herpsilochmus stotzi ) and the Olivschulter-Ameisenschnäpper ( Hypocnemis Rondoni ).

Cohn-Haft looks after master's and doctoral students , is editor-in-chief of the in-house INPA publishing department, organizes expeditions and regularly publishes scientific articles as well as Brazilian blogs and nature conservation blogs for laypeople.

In his free time, he leads bird-watching excursions for the ecotourism company Field Guides in Brazil, in which celebrities such as Bill Gates and Peter Gabriel took part. Since 1991 he has been married to Rita Mesquita, a Brazilian plant ecologist and conservation activist.

Dedication names

Kevin Jay Zimmer and Andrew Whittaker named the acretodityrann ( Hemitriccus cohnhafti ) in 2013 in honor of Mario Cohn-Haft.

literature

• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing 2014, p. 621

Web links

• Nuttall Ornithological Club: Mario Cohn-Haft - Birds of the Amazon Revisited: Haffer's Legacy 40 years Later (short biography)
• Curriculum Vitae (Portuguese)