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Glen Everett Woolfenden
b. 1930
A pioneering American ornithologist, he became best known for a decades-long study of the Florida scrub-jay that helped change how scientists understand bird behavior. His work blended patient field observation with a deep curiosity about evolution, cooperation, and life in the wild.
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Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima
by Glen Everett Woolfenden
About the author
Born in 1930, Glen Everett Woolfenden was an American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist whose name is closely tied to the Florida scrub-jay. He spent much of his career studying this rare bird at Archbold Biological Station in Florida, building one of the longest continuous field studies of a wild bird population.
Woolfenden was a charter faculty member at the University of South Florida and later served as a distinguished research professor there. His research, especially on cooperative breeding in scrub-jays, made him widely respected in ornithology and helped shape modern field studies of bird behavior.
He died in 2007, but his influence continued through the long-running research projects he helped establish and the generations of bird scientists who followed his lead. For readers interested in nature writing and bird study, his work stands as a reminder of how much can be learned by watching one place, and one species, with extraordinary care over time.