Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Birds of prey.

Birds of the New World Tropics ("Neotropics").

Habitat fragmentation in the Amazon, ecology, and conservation.

Professional Associations

Past President of the Board of Directors, and past Acting Executive Director of the Carolina Raptor Center.

Vice President, Mecklenburg Audubon Society.

Founding Trustee of the Board of Directors of North Carolina Audubon Society.

Past President and Secretary of the Board, Catawba Lands Conservancy.

Scientific Advisor, The Peregrine Fund.

Contributing recordist for the Library of Natural Sounds at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology.

Recent Publications

Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1974. Incomplete wing molt and erythrism in Red-tailed Hawks. Auk 91:618-9.

Bierregaard, R. O., Jr., A. D. Ben David, T. D. Baird, R. E. Woodruff. 1975. First northwestern Atlantic breeding for the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus puffinus). Auk 92: 145-7.

Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1982. Levantamentos ornitológicos no dossel da mata pluvial de terra firme. Acta Amazónica  12: 107-111.

Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1984. Observations on the nesting biology of the Guiana Crested Eagle (Morphnus guianensis). Wilson Bulletin 96: 1-5.

Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1988. Morphological data from understory birds in terra firme forest in the Central Amazonian basin. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 48: 169-178.