toral research (Ph.D. in biogeography) was conducted in the Sierra de 
Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico. Employed at the Buffalo Museum of Science 
as Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Associate Director, and currently 
Research Associate. I am a Life and Elective Member of the AOU, Past 
President and Fellow of the BOS, member of its avian records commit¬ 
tee for several decades, and a member of the FNYSBC NYSARC since 
its creation in 1977, and Chair of same from 1988 to 1999. 
I have conducted ornithological research in twenty countries in the 
Western Hemisphere, Europe and Africa, with specific studies on 
endangered bird species in Mexico, Guatemala, St. Vincent and St. 
Lucia, and have studied 23 gull species on four continents. 
Have authored some 65 scientific and popular articles, was principal 
editor of The Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State, wrote part of and 
edited Beardslee and Mitchell's Birds of the Niagara Frontier Region and 
its Supplement , edited Eaton's Birds of Cattaraugus County, New York, 
Rosche's Birds of Wyoming County, New York , contributed data to Bull's 
Birds of New York State, and species accounts to Levine's Bull's Birds of 
New York State. 
Have received research grants from 12 U.S. and foreign institutions, 
led tours in the US, Canada, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Trinidad and 
Africa, and have been consultant and advisor on environmental matters 
to several federal, state, municipal and private organizations. 
In 1999,1 received the Gordon M. Meade Award of the FNYSBC for 
distinguished service to the Federation. 
THOMAS W. BURKE 
As a lifelong resident of southern Westchester County, with higher 
education at Yale University (undergraduate in economics) and New 
York University (graduate in accounting), and currently pursuing a 
career in public accounting, I began actively birding in the summer of 
1972. To this end, I have traveled through much of the United States and 
Canada and have taken several trips abroad to Europe, Africa and South 
America. Over the years I have led numerous regional field trips for 
various organizations. I published a comprehensive birding newsletter, 
the M ianus Field Notes , covering eastern Westchester and western 
Fairfield Counties for 15 years. In 19761 established and still am co-com¬ 
piler of the Greenwich - Stamford Summer Bird Count. I have been the 
editor and voice of the New York Rare Bird Alert since early 1984. 
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