Robert Payne (ornithologist)
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Robert Payne is an ornithologist, professor and curator at the Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan.
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[edit] 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 a NSF postdoctoral fellowship by the University of Cape Town.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Reference
- 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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