Dr Jacob Drucker

I am an evolutionary ecologist studying birds to address urgent issues in biodiversity science and inspire community-driven action. My work leverages an array of field, molecular, and computational methods to bridge knowledge gaps in natural history at scales relevant for regional planning and management. While I have over two decades of fieldwork experience across the globe for academic, government, non-profit, and for profit organizations, most of my research focuses on tropical systems. 

For much of the last decade my central projects have studied how birds migrate in tropical wind regimes using weather radars and acoustic monitoring in Colombia, and how plasticity in diet and foraging behavior shape the assembly and vulnerability of forest bird communities in the Ecuadorian Andes. This work was based at the Field Museum of Natural History, where I remain a research affiliate.

As a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Centre for Global Wood Security, I bring a micro and macroecological approach to a team that is quantifying the effectiveness of woodland restoration across sub-Saharan Africa.