Bruce Beehler
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Dr. Bruce Beehler (born October 11, 1951 in Baltimore) is an ornithologist and vice-president of Conservation International's Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC).
With an international team of 11 scientists, the majority from the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), Beehler conducted a major survey of biological diversity in the Foja Mountains of Papua – the largest nearly pristine tropical forest in Asia.
Beehler's findings expanded on previous research conducted in the region by Dr. Jared Diamond in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Beehler, however, returned with the first ever photographs of two famed bird species, the Berlepsch's Six-wired Bird of Paradise and the Golden-fronted Bowerbird.
Beehler graduated from Williams College and received his Masters and PhD at Princeton University.
