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Brief Description:

New Guinea’s complex and fast-changing geological history has contributed to the evolution of birds in ways that are just being unraveled.  Developments in the use of DNA to build phylogenies have revealed greater diversity than was previously recognized and indicate that some lineages unique to New Guinea were formerly lumped with more widespread groups.  Some of these groups of birds (“clades”) are probably best considered new endemic families.

Brief Bio:

Andy began his career in ornithology at the Academy of Natural Sciences as the bird collections manager when Frank Gill was curator.  He moved on to work for Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society, Carnegie Museum of Natural History and is now at Penn State University-Altoona.  He has authored somewhere north of 50 peer-reviewed publications and has also mentored a couple of dozen Papua New Guinean students who have gone on to international Masters and PhD programs.  He continues studying cassowaries and has some cool findings due out soon.  His book “Searching for Pekpek: Cassowaries & Conservation in the New Guinea Rainforest” chronicles his arduous and sometimes darkly humorous effort to set up and run a field station in Papua New Guinea. He remains active in conservation through involvement in a number of projects and organizations, and lives in western Pennsylvania.

Andy near Mt. Hagen in Papua New Guinea