Education

Sc.D. Johns Hopkins University (1972)
M. S. Florida State University (1968)
B.A. Florida State University (1966)

Research Interests

Current research interests: fossil avifaunas and paleoenvironments of Hawaii, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Biogeography of the avifauna of the archipelago and lowlands of Bocas del Toro, Panama. Phylogeny and systematics of Hawaiian and various other birds, mainly Neotropical.

Recent Publications

Olson, Storrs L. 2013. Fossil woodpeckers from Bermuda with the description of a new species of Colaptes (Aves: Picidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 126(1): 17-24. doi:10.2988/0006-324X-126.1.17

Rando, Juan C., Alcover, Josep Antoni, Olson, Storrs L. and Pieper, Harald 2013. A new species of extinct scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus ) from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa, 3647(2): 343-357. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.6

Olson, Storrs L. and Wingate, David B. 2012. A new species of towhee (Aves: Emberizidae: Pipilo) from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(1): 85-96. doi:10.2988/11-21.1

Olson, Storrs L. 2012. Notes on the Appendicular Myology of the Scarlet Finch Haematospiza sipahi (Fringillidae: Carduelinae). Ornithological Science, 11(1): 57-58. doi:10.2326/osj.11.57

Olson, Storrs L. 2012. In Memoriam: Evgeny N. Kurochkin, 1940-2011. The Auk, 129(4): 790-791. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.129.4.790

Rando, Juan C., Pieper, Harald, Alcover, Josep Antoni and Olson, Storrs L. 2012. A new species of extinct fossil scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from the Archipelago of Madeira (North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa, 3182: 29-42.

Olson, Storrs L. 2012. A new species of small owl of the genus Aegolius (Aves: Strigidae) from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(2): 97-105. doi:10.2988/11-36.1

Olson, Storrs L. 2012. History, Structure, Evolution, Behvior, Distribution, and Ecology of the Extinct Hawaiian Genus Ciridops (Fringillidae, Carduelini, Drepanidini). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 124(4): 651-674.

Olson, Storrs L. 2012. In Memoriam: Evgeny N. Kurochkin, 1940-2011. The Auk, 129(4): 790-791. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.129.4.790

Longrich, Nicholas R. and Olson, Storrs L. 2011. The bizarre wing of the Jamaican flightless ibis Xenicibis xympithecus: a unique vertebrate adaptation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1716): 2333-2337. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2117

Olson, Storrs L. and Rauzon, Mark J. 2011. The Extinct Wake Island Rail Gallirallus wakensis: A Comprehensive Species Account Based on Museum Specimens and Archival Records. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 123(4): 663-689. doi:10.1676/11-029.1

Hearty, Paul J. and Olson, Storrs L. 2011. Preservation of trace fossils and molds of terrestrial biota by intense storms in mid–last interglacial (MIS 5c) dunes on Bermuda, with a model for development of hydrological conduits. Palaios, 26(7): 394-405. doi:10.2110/palo.2010.p10-132r

Olson, Storrs L. 2011. A new genus and species of unusual tern (Aves: Laridae: Anoinae) from the Middle Miocene Calvert Formation of Virginia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 124(4): 270-279. doi:10.2988/11-16.1

Dove, Carla J. and Olson, Storrs L. 2011. Fossil Feathers from the Hawaiian Flightless Ibis (Apteribis sp.): Plumage Coloration and Systematics of a Prehistorically Extinct Bird. Journal of Paleontology, 85(5): 892-897.

Olson, Storrs L. 2011. The fossil record and history of doves on Bermuda (Aves: Columbidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 124(1): 1-6. doi:10.2988/10-21.1

Hearty, Paul J. and Olson, Storrs L. 2010. Geochronology, biostratigraphy, and changing shell morphology in the land snail subgenus Poecilozonites during the Quaternary of Bermuda. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 293(1-2): 9-29.

Ericson, Per G. P., Olson, Storrs L., Irestedt, Martin, Alvarenga, Herculano and Fjeldså, Jon 2010. Circumscription of a monophyletic family for the tapaculos (Aves: Rhinocryptidae): Psiloramphus in and Melanopareia out. Journal of Ornithology, 151: 337-345.

Olson, Storrs L. 2010. Stasis and turnover in small shearwaters on Bermuda over the last 400,000 years (Aves: Procellariidae: Puffinus lherminieri group). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 99: 699-707.

Olson, Storrs L., Loftin, Horace and Goodwin, Steve 2010. Biological, Geographical, and Cultural Origins of the Loon Hunting Tradition in Carteret County, North Carolina. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 122(4): 716-724.

Olson, Storrs L. and Nieves-Rivera, Ángel M. 2010. Fossil evidence and probable extinction of the greater fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae) on Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico. Mastozoología Neotropical, 17(1): 167-170.

Boyer, Alison G., James, Helen F., Olson, Storrs L. and Grant-Mackie, Jack A. 2010. Long-term ecological change in a conservation hotspot: the fossil avifauna of Mé Auré Cave, New Caledonia. Biodiversity and Conservation, 19(11): 3207-3224.

Olson, Storrs L. 2010. Review of: The Curse of the Labrador Duck. My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction. By Glen Chilton. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 122(1): 196-197.

Olson, Storrs L. and Hearty, Paul J. 2010. Predation as the primary selective force in recurrent evolution of gigantism in Poecilozonites land snails in Quaternary Bermuda. Biology Letters, 6(6): 807-810.

Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. 2009. A new genus for the Cuban teratorn (Aves: Teratornithidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(1): 103-116.

Olson, Storrs L. and Ricklefs, Robert E. 2009. More on the origin of the Red-legged Thrush (Turdus plumbeus) of Dominica, West Indies. The Auk, 126(2): 449-454.

Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. 2009. The generic position of Miraquila terrestris Campbell: another addition to the buteogalline radiation from the Pleistocene of Peru.. Journal of Raptor Research, 43(3): 249-253.

Olson, Storrs L. and Reveal, James L. 2009. Nomenclatural History and a New Name for the Blue-winged Warbler (Aves: Parulidae). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 121(3): 618-620.

Olson, Storrs L. 2009. Additional Data on the Occurrence of the Plantaris Muscle in the Hawaiian Finches (Carduelinae: Drepanidini). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 121(3): 621-623.

Olson, Storrs L. and Hearty, Paul J. 2009. A sustained +21 m sea-level highstand during MIS 11 (400 ka): direct fossil and sedimentary evidence from Bermuda. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(3-4): 271-285.

Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Olson, Storrs L. and James, Helen F. 2009. Extraordinary cranial specialization in a new genus of extinct duck (Aves: Anseriformes) from Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa, 2296: 47-67.

Olson, Storrs L. and Hume, J. P. 2009. Notes on early illustrations and the juvenile plumage of the extinct Hawaii Mamo Drepanis pacifica (Drepanidini). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 129(4): 206-212.

Olson, Storrs L. 2009. A new diminutive species of shearwater of the genus Calonectris (Aves: Procellariidae) from the Middle Miocene Calvert Formation of Chesapeake Bay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(4): 466-470.

Olson, Storrs L. 2009. Lectotype and type locality of Turdus trichas Linnaeus, 1766, (Aves: Parulidae: Geothlypis). , 122(4): 464-465. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(4): 464-465.

Wijnker, Erik and Olson, Storrs L. 2009. A revision of the fossil genus Miocepphus and other Miocene Alcidae (Aves: Charadriiformes) of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 7(4): 471-487.

Olson, Storrs L. and Meylan, Peter A. 2009. A second specimen of the Pleistocene Bermuda tortoise Hesperotestudo bermudae Meylan and Sterrer. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 8(2): 211-212.

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