Eugene S. Morton

Eugene Morton was raised in Rocky River, Ohio, USA. He attended Denison University (B.S.), University of the Pacific, Cornell University (M.S.) and completed his Ph. D. at Yale University, with pre- and postdoctoral fellowships at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Dr. Morton was a Professor at the University of Maryland and is a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently Director of the Hemlock Hill Field Station near Cambridge Springs, PA., where students from University of Maryland, Princeton, York University, and Allegheny College have pursued research for degrees. Dr. Morton specializes in migratory bird behavioral ecology, mating systems in birds and saturniid moths, animal communication, avian/plant coevolution, and prides himself on being a naturalist first and foremost. He has written or edited several books, including Migrant Birds in the Neotropics (1982), Animal Talk (1991) and The Smithsonian Book of Birds ( 1990) (both with Jake Page), Animal Vocal Communication: A New Approach (1998)(with D. H. Owings), The Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds (2001) (with Bridget Stutchbury), and Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment and Management Roles (2017). He received the William Brewster Award for meritorious research in ornithology from the American Ornithologists’ Union.