| Peter Meininger |
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| Peter Meininger ringing Phaeton aetherus |
| Peter Leendert MEININGER Since 1976 employed by the (Netherlands) Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (currently Rijkswaterstaat, Rijksinstituut voor Kust en Zee). Involved in multidisciplinary environmental studies (water quality, macrozoobenthos, birds, habitat changes) relating to the final phase of the Delta Project: large-scale coastal engineering works in the Delta area of the Southwest-Netherlands, including the damming of several estuaries and the construction of a storm-surge barrier. Was responsible for the organisation and implementation of an intensive monitoring programme for birds: monthly counts of waterbirds (1977-1998) and an annual census of coastal breeding birds (Avocet, plovers, gulls and terns; 1979-present). The majority of spare time in the period 1974-1999 was spent abroad, with a few exceptions during expeditions or other projects dealing with birds, rather than “just birding”. Most of these activities were devoted to wetlands and waterbirds and included visits to Bahrain, Egypt (14 times), Greece, Libya, Mauritania, Senegal (2x), South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States (2x). (Co-) edited five books (including ‘The Birds of Egypt’) and several large reports, and published over 200 papers on various ornithological subjects. Member of the editorial board of the ornithological journals ‘Sula’, ‘Atlantic Seabirds’, ‘Dutch Birding’ and ‘Sandgrouse’. |