Noel Snyder
Noel Friedrich Ralph Snyder (born December 25, 1938 ), often known as Noel Snyder or Noel FR Snyder , is an American ornithologist , conservationist and non-fiction author.
Life
In 1962, Snyder graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology . In 1966 he was with a thesis on alarm Reaction of Aquatic Gastropods to intra Specific Extract for Ph.D. PhD from Cornell University . In 1967 he married the biologist Helen Andrus Fessenden.
Snyder was initially a teacher and researcher at the University of South Florida at Tampa . From 1972 to 1976 he was an assistant professor of biology at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service biologist at the Endangered Wildlife Research Program, where he research and conservation programs for the Puerto Rican Amazon ( Amazona vittata ) and the Everglades - Schneckenweih ( Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus ) headed.
From 1980 to 1986 he and his wife were among the organizers of the California Condor Protection Program . When Snyder joined the program in 1980, only about twenty California condors were known to be in the wild. By 2008, there were approximately 200 condors in the wild and 60 in human care, thanks to a controversial breeding program instituted by Snyder's team. Harshly criticized by some environmentalists early in the effort, Snyder eventually won credit for saving the California condor. He and his wife published the book The California Condor: A Saga of Natural History and Conservation in 2000 . From 1989 to 1998, Snyder directed the Parrot Program at the Wildlife Trust in Philadelphia.
In his books he mainly deals with endangered or extinct species, including The Parrots of Luquillo: Natural History and Conservation of the Puerto Rican Parrot (1987), Birds of Prey: Natural History and Conservation of North American Raptors (1991), Parrots : Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan, 2000-2004 (2000), The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird (2004) and The Travails of Two Woodpeckers: Ivory-bills & Imperials (2009).
In addition to his scientific career, Snyder is a cellist. In 1961 he received a Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music , where he studied with Leonard Rose , and he was a founding member of the Bay Festival String Quartet in Rockport , Maine .
In 1989, Snyder received the American Ornithologists' Union's William Brewster Medal .
literature
- Noel FR Snyder. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2012. Biography In Context, accessed June 18, 2018
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Auk, Vol 107, No. 1, 1990 William Brewster Memorial Award, 1989 (PDF; 88 kB)
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| SURNAME | Snyder, Noel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Snyder, Noel Friedrich Ralph (full name); Snyder, Noel FR |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ornithologist, conservationist, and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1938 |