Thomas Scott Schulenberg

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Thomas "Tom" Scott Schulenberg (born May 29, 1954 ) is an American ornithologist . His research focus is the neotropical avifauna .

Life

In the 1970s, Schulenberg made his first excursions in Peru to study and document the native avifauna in the field. In 1976 he received a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from Humboldt State University and in 1981 he graduated with a Master of Arts in Zoology from Louisiana State University . In 1995 he was under the direction of Scott M. Lanyon with the thesis Evolutionary history of the Vangas (Vangidae) of Madagascar for Ph.D. PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago .

Schulenberg worked for a while in ecotourism and led bird exploration tours to Peru , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador and other countries for the company Victor Emanuel Nature Tours . He later became an ornithologist and worked on Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program from 1994 to 1998 and as a conservation ecologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1999 to 2007 . The Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) is a collaborative project between the Field Museum and Conservation International. It uses existing knowledge, satellite images and reconnaissance flights to identify poorly explored areas with high protection potential. In 1993 and 1994, two interdisciplinary teams of biologists carried out field work in the Cordillera del Cóndor between Peru and Ecuador in order to carry out assessments and protection recommendations on site based on biological investigations. In 1997, Schulenberg published the results of this research in his book The Cordillera del Cóndor region of Ecuador and Peru: A biological assessment .

Since 2008, Schulenberg has worked for the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology , where he heads the Neotropical Birds project , an online guide with detailed information on Neotropical birds. He is also a taxonomist at the eBird online database and writes articles on bird taxonomy in the journal Neotropical Birding under the title “Splits, lumps and shuffles” . In 2007 he published the book Birds of Peru , in which Douglas F. Stotz , Daniel F. Lane , John Patton O'Neill and Theodore Albert Parker III , who died in 1993 , were involved.

Schulenberg was co-author of the first descriptions of seven neotropical bird taxa , including 1981 Gary L. Graham the subspecies Uromyias agraphia plengei the white-bellied Tachurityranns , 1982 Morris D. Williams , the pale-billed Ameisenpitta ( Grallaria carrikeri ), 1985 with Laurence Charles Binford the Grünkappentangare ( Tangara meyerdeschauenseei ), 1997, in collaboration with Niels Krabbe the Chocótapaculo ( Scytalopus chocoensis ) ,, the Robbinstapaculo ( Scytalopus robbinsi ) and Bambustapaculo ( Scytalopus parkeri ) and in the same year the Orange Eye Breitschnabel tyrant ( Tolmomyias traylori ) what Theodore Albert Parker III was involved.

In addition to the South American avifauna, Schulenberg deals with Malagasy bird species. His doctoral thesis was about the family of Vangawürger (Vangidae) and 1991 he reported together with Steven M. Goodman on Fanovananewtonie ( Newtonia fanovanae ), a bird that was rediscovered in October 1989 by Goodman, having previously only by the December 1931 collected holotype was known.

Schulenberg has been editor of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's online project Birds of the World since 2020 .

Dedication names

In 1985 John Patton O'Neill and Theodore Albert Parker III described the subspecies Pheugopedius euophrys schulenbergi of the chestnut back wren , which in 2017 was recognized by BirdLife International and the Handbook of the Birds of the World as an independent species Pheugopedius schulenbergi and the common German name Graubrauen-Waunkönig received. In 1994, Bret M. Whitney named the diadem tapaculo ( Scytalopus schulenbergi ) in honor of Tom Schulenberg.

literature

  • The Fieldmuseum Collections and Research February 1997. Office of Academic Affairs, 1997, p. 198 (short biography).
  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing 2014, p. 501 (short biography).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas S. Schulenberg, Gary L. Graham: A new subspecies of Anairetes agraphia (Tyrannidae) from northern Peru. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 101 (1), 1981, pp. 241-243
  2. ↑ Thomas S. Schoolsberg, Morris D. Williams: A new species of antpitta (Grallaria) from northern Peru. Wilson Bulletin, 94 (2), 1982, pp. 105-113
  3. ↑ Thomas S. Schulenberg, Laurence C. Binford: A New Species Of Tanager (Emberizidae: Thraupinae, Tangara) from Southern Peru. Wilson Bulletin, 97 (4), December 1985, pp. 413-420
  4. ↑ a b c Niels Krabbe, Thomas S. Schulenberg: Species Limits and Natural History of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), with Descriptions of the Ecuadorian Taxa, including Three New Species In: James V. Remsen (ed.): Ornithological Monographs , No. . 48, University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1997, ISBN 978-0-935868-93-7 , pp. 46-88
  5. ↑ Thomas S. Schulenberg, Theodore Albert Parker III: A new species of tyrant-flycatcher (Tyrannidae: Tolmomyias) from the western Amazonian basin. In: James V. Remsen (ed.): Ornithological Monographs , No. 48, University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1997, ISBN 978-0-935868-93-7 , pp. 723-731
  6. ↑ Thomas S. Schulenberg, Steven M. Goodman: The rediscovery of the Red-tailed Newtonia Newtonia fanovanae in southeastern Madagascar with notes on the natural history of the genus Newtonia. Bird Conservation International 1, 1991, pp. 33-45
personal data
SURNAME Schulenberg, Thomas Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuleberg, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1954