Peter Berthold#
| Membership Number: | 1802 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.orn.mpg.de/589467/Prof_Dr_Peter_Berthold |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Professor Emeritus
- 1998 Director, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, as one of the two divisions of the Research Unit for Ornithology of the Max Planck Society
- 1991 Local Head, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Max Planck Institute of Behavioural Physiology
- 1981 Professor of Biology, University of Constance
- 1972 Lecturer, University of Constance
Fields of Scholarship
- Migration
- Annual periodicity
- Biological rhythms
- Behavioural, population and molecular genetics
- Evolutionary biology
- Population dynamics
- Ecosystem analysis
- Reproduction
- Biology of capercaillie
- Basic research related to conservation
- Satellite tracking
- Capercaillie biology and conservation
- Studies of effects of (all year) bird feeding
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Member of the International Ornithological Committee
- 1986 Member of the Permanent Executive Committee of the International Ornithologial Congresses
- 1986 Chairman of the Scientific Program Committee of the XX. International Ornithological Congress
- 1988 Award of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
- 1989 Elliott Coues Award, American Ornithologist's Union
- 1990 Honorary Fellow, American Ornithologist's Union
- 1990 Golden nestbox for bird conservation activities, Ludwigshafen/Rhine
- 1991 Bruno-H. Schubert-Award of the Schubert-Foundation
- 1992 Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea
- 1992 Witherby Memorial Lecturer, British Trust for Ornithology
- 1994 President of the XXII. International Ornithological Congress in Durban
- 1995 Honorary Member of the British Ornithologists' Union
- 1997 Council Member of the European Ornithologists' Union
- 1998 Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
- 1998 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1998 Science Price and Karl Ritter von Frisch-Medal of the German Zoological Society
- 1999 J. Müller and E. Haeckel Memorial Lecturer, Berlin and Jena
- 2000 Honorary Member of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
- 2000 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Deutsche Jagdschutz-Verband
- 2002 Philip Morris Research Award
- 2003 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Honorary Member Spanish Ornithological Society
- 2004vHonorary Award Heinz Sielmann Foundation
- 2004 Challenge trophy, Vogelwarte Radolfzell
- 2005 Member of the Council of the Sielmann Foundation
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation
- 2005 Honorary Member of the Ornithological Society of Saxony
- 2006 Corresponding Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Felix-von-Hornstein-Medal, by the BNO, Bad Wurzach
- 2011 Promega Science and Journalism Price for excellent publications in Biology
- 2012 Order of Merit of State Baden-Württemberg
