Senior Museum Specialist III
Division of Vertebrate Zoology-Ornithology

American Museum of Natural History

People and Wildlife Research Group
School of Biological Sciences
University of Reading

Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AS, United Kingdom

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Peter Capainolo has had an interest in Natural History, particularly ornithology, since boyhood. At age eighteen, he was granted one of the first falconry licenses issued by New York State. He studied zoology and practiced falconry under renowned ornithologist Heinz Meng at the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, and subsequently earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology. A strong proponent of field and specimen-based research and education, he is currently Senior Museum Specialist in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and adjunct professor of biology at the City College of the City University of New York.

 

He serves on the New York State Falconry Advisory Board, and on the advisory board and as Curator of Birds of the Institute for Natural History Arts.  He is author and co-author of books and scientific papers on zoology, ornithology, ecology, and medicine.