Dan Froehlich (Conservation Scientist) Tel: (206) 595 2305

Daniel Froehlich, raised both in Germany and New Jersey, holds a Bachelor's degree in biology from Carleton College in Minnesota. In 2009, he will complete a PhD in Zoology studying molt, feather wear, and life history strategies at the University of Washington where he taught avian museum specimen preparation at the Burke Museum.

Dan is a master bander and banding trainer certified by the North American Banding Council. In 2007, he cofounded CECCOT, a research, education and conservation center in the Peruvian Amazon where he leads annual bird-banding research expeditions. In the same year, he cofounded the Puget Sound Bird Observatory, a non-profit organization that coordinates banding projects in Washington state. Before graduate school, he was program coordinator for IBP’s Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program and program director for the Institute's Bander Training Program. Years as a peripatetic bird-bander triggered his fascination with the evolution of molt strategies employed by birds around the world. He and his wife live in an intentional community in Seattle.

Selected Publications:

Froehlich , D. 2003. Ageing North American Landbirds by Molt Limits and Plumage Criteria A Photographic Companion to the Identification Guide to North American
Birds, Part 1. 51pp. Slate Creek Press, Bolinas, CA.

Froehlich, D. R., S. Rohwer and B. J. M. Stutchbury. 2005. Spring molt constraints versus winter territoriality: is conspicuous winter coloration maladaptive? in Birds of Two Worlds: the Ecology and Evolution of Migration, eds. R. Greenberg and P. Marra. pp. 321-336.

Rohwer, S., L. K. Butler, and D. R. Froehlich. 2005. Ecology and demography of east-west differences in molt scheduling of Neotropical migrant passerines. in Birds of Two Worlds: the Ecology and Evolution of Migration, eds. R. Greenberg and P. Marra. pp. 87-105.

Froehlich, D. R., S. Rohwer and J. H. Barry. In prep. Monsoon molt in Black-headed Grosbeaks (Pheucticus melanocephalus).

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