John W. Fitzpatrick

Director Emeritus of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

John Fitzpatrick served as Executive Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology from 1995 to 2021, where he also held a professorship in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He holds a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Princeton, and his research has long focused on bird ecology and conservation, including ongoing work on the Florida Scrub-Jay. A lifelong birder since childhood, he is also an occasional bird painter.