Henri Roger Ouellet, 1938-1999 - Canadian field-naturalist collecting audio data from a forest environment
English: Title: The Canadian field-naturalist Identifier: canadianfieldnat114otta (find matches) Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club Subjects: Publisher: Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 2000 McNeil and Godfrey: A Tribute to Henri Roger Ouellet, 1938-1999 155 Text Appearing After Image: Henri Roger Ouellet, 1938-1999. Photograph taken in June 1983, near La Grande. James Ba\. Quebc um collections and library irregularly until his death, but many of his projects remain unfinished. Henri's main research and ornithological interests were in distribution, zoogeography, and systematics, but he also investigated ecology and behavior. Between 1970 and 1991, he was instrumental in enhancing the development and expansion of the national ornithological collections at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, through field collect- ing, exchanges, acceptance of gifts, and purchases. Indeed, from 1970 to 1985, he conducted and/or directed for the museum over 17 ornithological sur- veys in various parts of Canada, from Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon and Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories. His special emphasis was on the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. He also conducted field investigations in the Lesser Antilles, French Guiana, Argentina, and Venezuela for studies on the systematics and evolution of selected neotropical Emberizine genera. Particular emphasis was placed on filling gaps in the geographic representation of Canadian material, acquiring specimens in particular groups poorly represented in the collections, and on broadening the global geographic representation of specimens, particularly from the Neotropics. During his last few years of activity at the Canadian Museum of Nature, using results of the above-mentioned expeditions in various parts of eastern Canada, his work on avian zoogeography focused on the ecological and historical distribution, taxonomy, and evolution of the many species of birds recorded on the mainland of Quebec and Labrador as well as on adjacent islands. He was par- ticularly interested in the fragments of tundra south of the tree line and the disjunct forest islands dis- persed north of the tree line and in special areas which had been little studied, such as the northern part of Labrador, the western sector of the Ungava Peninsula, and Mansell and Akpatok islands. He was also studying the patterns of distribution of the Nearctic and Neotropical elements of the bird fauna of Canada in the Ught of recent distributional, paly- nological, botanical, and ecological information. Henri was currently reviewing the status of sever- al North American taxa, examining species limits and geographic variation patterns using standard tax- onomic procedures such as biometry and statistical treatments, but also including newer approaches such as song analysis, keratin protein analyses, mito- chondrial DNA, and PCR. At the time of his Ph. D. thesis and thereafter, part of his interests dealt with the relationships of the woodpecker genera Dendrocopos and Picoides (see Ardea 65:165-183; Condor 101:86-95, 1999). Throughout his career, he was particularly interested in studying various aspects of the biology (nesting, feeding and predato- Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.