John is the co-leader of the ivory-bill search effort in Arkansas and has been the director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology since 1995. Previously, he was executive director of Florida’s Archbold Biological Station and curator of birds at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. He has led scientific expeditions to remote areas of South America and published extensively on tropical birds, in...
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John is the co-leader of the ivory-bill search effort in Arkansas and has been the director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology since 1995. Previously, he was executive director of Florida’s Archbold Biological Station and curator of birds at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. He has led scientific expeditions to remote areas of South America and published extensively on tropical birds, including seven new bird species he discovered. Fitzpatrick is the author of Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, and he has been engaged in applying science to real-world conservation issues throughout his career.
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