Peter Pyle
Peter Pyle (* 1957 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American ornithologist . He is considered one of the world's leading experts on moulting .
Life
Pyle is the son of Robert Lawrence Pyle (1923-2007) and Bonita Leilani Pyle (1928-2017), née Bryan. His father was a meteorologist and a noted bird watcher in Hawaii and the Pacific. His mother was a botanist and ethnographer . From 1977 to 1986 Peter Pyle was involved in studies of forest birds in Hawaii , Micronesia and American Samoa . In 1979 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore , Pennsylvania . From 1985 he worked for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO) as a biologist on the Farallon Islands for 24 years , where he worked intensively on bird, bat and butterfly migration as well as the islands' marine ecosystem. He also conducted studies on the great white shark as part of the Farallon Islands White Shark Project and contributed to Paul Atkins' documentary Great White Shark in 1985 . Since 1987 he has been a member of the California Bird Records Committee. Since 1995 he has been a research fellow at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu , Hawaii. Since 1996 he has been a wildlife biologist at the Institute for Bird Populations in California , where he conducts research on moulting and leads bird ringing workshops. Since 1998 he has been a research fellow at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco .
Pyle has written or co-authored over 170 professional articles, several books, and a monograph on the birds of Hawaii. His books include Distributional Checklist of North American Birds (1986), Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds (1993), Flight-feather Molt Patterns and Age in North American Owls (1997), Identification Guide to North American Birds, Part I: Columbidae to Ploceidae (1997), Identification Guide to North American Birds. Part II: Anatidae to Alcidae (2008), Molt and Aging Criteria for Four North American Grassland Passerines (2008) and The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and Status (2009).
2011 Pyle belonged alongside Andre Anna J. Welch and Robert C. Fleischer to Erstbeschreibern of Midway shearwater ( Puffinus bryani ), a seabird that Pyle after his grandfather, the naturalist Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. (1898-1985) named.
Pyle co-authored numerous articles in the online edition of the standard work Birds of North America , including on the bank tyrant ( Empidonax difficilis ), the Harris bunting ( Zonotrichia querula ), the Eastern screech owl ( Megascops asio ), the Red-billed pigeon ( Patagioenas flavirostris ), the common tern ( Sterna hirundo ) and the bullock trupial ( Icterus bullockii ).
literature
- Curriculum Vitae (PDF, as of 2014)
Web links
- Employee profile at the Institute for Bird Populations
- Literature by and about Peter Pyle in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pyle, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ornithologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |