Robert Payne (ornithologist)
- Robert Payne (ornithologist)
Robert Payne is an ornithologist, professor and curator at the Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan.
Academic background
Payne had completed his B.S. at the University of Michigan in 1960, and Ph.D. at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1965. He was awarded an NSF postdoctoral fellowship by the University of Cape Town.
Fields of study
Payne is an expert in behavioral ecology and evolution, bird song and systematics. He has done fieldwork in Africa for 2 years, Western Australia for 3 years, and in Michigan for 20 years.
Publications
Some of his notable publications are as followed:
* The Cuckoos, Birds Families of the World 2005
* The Birds of Africa 2005
* Museum collections as sources of genetic data 2003
* A distributional checklist of the birds of Michigan 1983
References
* http://www.eeb.lsa.umich.edu/eeb/people/rbpayne/index.html
* http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Bird-Families-World/dp/0198502133/sr=1-1/qid=1170751790/ref=sr_1_1/105-6820948-6490041?ie=UTF8&s=books
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