Martjan Lammertink

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Jeroen Martjan Lammertink (born May 22, 1971 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch ornithologist . His main research interests are the woodpeckers (Picidae).

Life

Lammertink grew up near a coastal forest nature reserve in Castricum north of Amsterdam. A passionate bird watcher since he was eleven , he studied a small population of ringed black woodpeckers during his high school years . After reports of sightings of the Cuban ivory woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis bairdii ) in 1986 and 1987, Lammertink traveled to Cuba in 1991 and 1993. His searches for the Cuban ivory woodpecker in the Ojito de Agua and Nuevo Mundo regions were unsuccessful.

From 1991 to 1996 Lammertink studied at the University of Amsterdam. For his master's thesis in 1994 and 1995, he conducted field studies on endemic avifauna in the primary forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico, which are dominated by pine and oak . Between 1997 and 2001 Lammertink researched woodpeckers in the tropical swamps, mangroves and lowland forests of Indonesia. Above all, he focused on the community ecology and the effects of deforestation on the Southeast Asian woodpeckers. During this time he met the biologist Utami Setiorini in West Kalimantan , whom he married in 2001. Since 2004, Lammertink has worked in the Conservation Department of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca , New York . He is also involved in the research council Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Argentina. In 2005 Lammertink co-authored a high-profile article in the journal Science announcing the rediscovery of the Ivory Woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis ) in Arkansas. After conducting research in Myanmar in 2006, he was in 2007 with a thesis on community ecology and logging responses of Southeast Asian woodpeckers (Picidae, Aves) for Ph.D. PhD.

1995 Lammertink discovered in the manuscript collection of the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University letters from William L. Rhein (1910-1999) and Frederick H. Hilton from 1962, which were addressed to the ornithologist James Taylor Tanner (1914-1991) and in which the existence of film recordings about the emperor woodpecker ( Campephilus imperialis ) is mentioned, which Rhein had shot in 1956 during an expedition in Durango . In November 1997, Lammertink was given the opportunity to visit Rhein at his home in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania and see the film. In 2010, Lammertink and Tim Gallagher followed the Rhine route in the Sierra Madre Occidental, without rediscovering the emperor's woodpecker.

In early 2016, Lammertink and Gallagher went on a failed expedition to find the Cuban ivory woodpecker.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c J. M. Lammertink: Curriculum Vitae In: Community ecology and logging responses of Southeast Asian woodpeckers (Picidae, Aves) , dissertation at the University of Amsterdam, 2007, p. 137
  2. ^ Lester L. Short & Jennifer FM Horne: The Ivorybill still lives. Natural History 95, 1986: 26, 28.
  3. ^ Lester L. Short & Jennifer FM Horne: I saw it (account of Ivory-billed Woodpecker search). International Wildlife 17, 1987: 22-23.
  4. ^ M. Lammertink: Search for Ivory-billed Woodpecker in eastern Cuba. Dutch Birding 14, 1992: p. 170-173.
  5. ↑ JM Lammertink and AR Estrada: Status of Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis in Cuba: almost certainly extinct. Bird Conservation International 5, 1995: p. 53-59.
  6. ↑ Martjan Lammertink: No more hope for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis Cotinga 3, 1995
  7. ↑ J. Martjan Lammertink: status and conservation of old-growth forests and endemic birds in the pine-oak zone of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. University of Amsterdam. Institute for Systematics and Population Biology, 1996
  8. ^ A b Tim Gallagher: Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre . Atria Books, 2013.
  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 ).
personal data
SURNAME Lamb drink, Martjan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lammertink, Jeroen Martjan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands