Bruce Beehler — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as a Research Associate in the Bird Division of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
Co-led a widely published rapid assessment survey in 2005 to the Foja Mountains, Papua, resulting in scientific discoveries including a previously unknown species of honeyeater and first photographs of rare birds.
Authored or co-authored several major works on New Guinea birds, including "The Birds of Paradise" (1998), "The Birds of New Guinea" (1986, 2015), and "New Guinea: Nature and Culture of the World's Grandest Island" (2020).
Holds a master's degree and PhD from Princeton University, where he studied the behavioral ecology of birds-of-paradise.
Previously worked for Conservation International, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Counterpart International, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Biography

Bruce McPherson Beehler is an American ornithologist and a Research Associate in the Bird Division of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Born on October 11, 1951, in Baltimore, he graduated from Williams College and earned his master's degree and PhD from Princeton University, focusing his doctoral research on the behavioral ecology of birds-of-paradise.