Staff Spotlight
Dr. Tom Webber
Ornithology Collections Manager
350 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-1972
Email: twebber@flmnh.ufl.edu
Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Florida, 1984
Research Interests
Public Service
1990-1998 Member of board of directors, Alachua Audubon Society (AAS)
1990-1993 Conservation Chair, AAS
1998-1999 Vice-president, AAS
1990-1998 Member of executive committee, Suwannee-St. Johns Group of the Sierra Club (SSJSC)
1995-1996 President, SSJSC
1997-1998 Secretary, SSJSC
Representative Publications
J.W. Hardy, R.J. Raitt, J. Orejuela, T.A. Webber, and B. Edinger. 1975. First observation of the Orange-breasted Falcon in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Condor 77:512.
J.W. Hardy and T.A. Webber. 1975. A critical list of type specimens of birds in the Moore Laboratory of Zoology at Occidental College. Nat. Hist. Mus. of Los Angeles Co. Contributions in Science No. 273, pp. 1-25.
T.A. Webber. 1980. Eastern coachwhip predation on juvenile Scrub Jays. Fla. Field Nat. 8:29-30.
J.W. Hardy, T.A. Webber, and R.J. Raitt. 1981. Communal social biology of the Southern San Blas Jay. Bull. Fla. State Mus. (Biol. Sci.) 26:203-264.
T.A. Webber and W. Post. 1983. Breeding Seaside Sparrows in captivity. Pp. 153-162 In T.L. Quay, J.B. Funderburg, D.S. Lee, E.F. Potter, and C.F. Robbins (eds.), The Seaside Sparrow, its biology and management. Occ. Papers N. Carolina Biol. Survey.
T.A. Webber. 1983. Allopreening by Brown-headed Cowbirds. Condor 85:249-250.
T. Webber. 1985. Songs, displays, and other behavior at a courtship gathering of Blue-black Grassquits. Condor 87:543-546.
T. Webber and R.A. Stefani. 1990. Evidence for vocal learning by a Scrub Jay. Auk 107:202-204.
T. Webber and J.L. Brown. 1994. Natural history of the Unicolored Jay in Chiapas, Mexico. Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology 5:135-160.
T. Webber and C.T. Collins. 1995. Recordings verify that Vaux's Swifts visit Florida in winter. Fla. Field Nat. 23:25-29.
T. Webber. 1996. West Indian Cave Swallow. Pp. 341-347 In Rare and endangered biota of Florida, volume V. Birds. J.A. Rodgers, Jr., H.W. Kale II, and H.T. Smith, eds. Univ. Press of Florida, Gainesville.
T. Webber. 1996. Florida Prairie Warbler. Pp. 633-643 In Rare and endangered biota of Florida, volume V. Birds. J.A. Rodgers, Jr., H.W. Kale II, and H.T. Smith, eds. Univ. Press of Florida, Gainesville.
A.M. Kent, T. Webber, and D.W. Steadman. 1999. Distribution, relative abundance, and prehistory of birds on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivian altiplano. Ornitología Neotropical 10:151-178.
A.W. Kratter, T. Webber, T. Taylor, and D.W. Steadman. 2002. New specimen-based records of Florida birds. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 43:111-161.