Peregrine falcon (pealei and anatum/tundrius) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 16

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

John Cooper is a founding partner of Manning, Cooper and Associates Ltd, a consulting company with three offices in British Columbia. MCA specializes in biodiversity studies, forest biodiversity management and policy development, and environmental impact assessments. John is a leading ornithologist in British Columbia and has authored over 150 books, academic papers, technical reports, and popular articles on birds and other wildlife. He is regularly consulted on the status and conservation of birds by the provincial, territorial and federal governments, industry, and NGOs. In recent years he has contributed to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) and conservation of species at risk as co-author of COSEWIC status reports for Northern (Queen Charlotte) Goshawk, and Streaked Horned Lark. He has developed Management Plans for Peale’s Peregrine, Lewis’s Woodpecker and Flammulated Owl, and led development of the Recovery Strategy for Spotted Owls as required by the Species At Risk Act (SARA). John is also a very active volunteer on the Garry Oak Ecosystem Recovery Team, which is leading recovery efforts for several extirpated or rare birds in southwestern British Columbia. John co-authored Status of the Peregrine Falcon in British Columbia (2004) and inventoried most of the historically-known Anatum Peregrine nest sites in British Columbia in 1997.

Suzanne Beauchesne is the principal of Western Wildlife Research, an environmental consulting company that focuses on wildlife and habitat conservation issues. Suzanne has studied forest, grassland, and freshwater birds, mammals, amphibians, and molluscs in British Columbia and the western United States. Suzanne has co-authored the COSEWIC status report for Streaked Horned Lark, co-authored 3 other status reports submitted to COSEWIC, co-authored provincial management strategies for nine bird species, and stewardship accounts for four bird species for the Garry Oak Ecosystem Recovery Team. She is an acknowledged expert in British Columbia on Lewis’s Woodpecker, and is completing her graduate degree, which focuses on that species. Suzanne has led numerous environmental assessment studies related to industrial development, conservation of species at risk, and has authored numerous technical reports on birds.

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