Niels Krab

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Niels Kaare Krabbe (born July 1, 1951 in Frederikshavn , Denmark ) is a Danish ornithologist and conservationist.

Life

Niels Krabbe first worked for many years as a bird ringer in Denmark and then for several years in Israel, where he worked as a taxidermist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1988 he graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a Master of Arts degree in biology, geography and geology. In 1995 he received his Ph.D. from the same university. Krabbe did ornithological fieldwork in remote areas of Asia, Africa and North America. For many years he researched the bird life in the little-known regions of the Andes . He observed new and rare taxa, collected and prepared bird hides and made tape recordings. Most of the many thousands of bird skins and tissue samples that have been collected are kept in the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen.

After completing his book Birds of the High Andes , published together with Jon Fjeldså in 1990, he worked for BirdLife International for a year . In 1992, he wrote most of the articles on the endangered bird species of the Andes for the book Threatened Birds of the Americas . In 1998 he co-founded the organization “Fundación Jocotoco”, which aims to buy and maintain habitats for endangered bird species in Ecuador. He is also a member of the “Fundación ProAves”, which organizes species protection projects in Colombia. That same year, he called together with Paul Salaman the "Projekto Ognorhynchus" to protect the last known population of Yellow-eared Parakeet in Colombia to life. Krabbe succeeded in rediscovering the pale head bushhammer ( Atlapetes pallidiceps ) in 1998 and in 2004 the Antioquia Andean hummingbird ( Coeligena orina ), an endangered species of hummingbird from Colombia that was thought to have been lost for over 50 years.

Krabbe's scientific work in Ecuador led to a revision of the Tapaculo genus Scytalopus . To those described by him taxa include the reins spot Ameisenpitta ( Grallaria ridgelyi ), the Brown back Antwren ( Myrmotherula fjeldsaai ), the promontory-Olivtyrann ( Myiopagis olallai ) (with Paul Coopmans ), the Chocótapaculo ( Scytalopus chocoensis ), the Bambustapaculo ( Scytalopus parkeri ), the Robbinstapaculo ( Scytalopus robbinsi ), Magdalenatapaculo ( Scytalopus rodriguezi ) and the Stilestapaculo ( Scytalopus stilesi ). In 2007 he recorded the sounds of the Santa Marta screech owl ( Megascops gilesi ) in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the Colombian department of Magdalena , which he first described in 2017 . In 2018 he was one of the first to describe the blue-throated hummingbird ( Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus ).

Since 2000 Krabbe has been working on the one hand as a curator at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen and on the other hand he is continuing his conservation and research work in Ecuador and Colombia.

Dedication names

2020 was Bürzelstelzerart Scytalopus krabbei from Peru by Niels Krabbe named.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1990: Birds of the High Andes: A manual to the birds of the temperate zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America (with Jon Fjeldså)
  • 1991: Avifauna of the Temperate Zone of the Ecuadorean Andes: Technical Report Over Surveys in 1990-91 with Reviews of Previous Ornithological Work in the Zone . Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen
  • 1992: Threatened Birds of the Americas: The ICBP / IUCN Red Data Book (with Nigel Collar)
  • 1998: Avian Diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes: An Atlas of Distribution of Andean Forest Birds and Conservation Priorities . Center for Research on the Cultural and Biological Diversity of Andean Rainforests (DIVA)
  • 2003: Handbook of the Birds of the World: Broadbills to Tapaculos . Volume 8. (Chapter Rhinocryptidae and Formicariidae)

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