Curator Emeritus of Birds
(Retired 2003)

M.S. Florida Atlantic University, 1968
B.S. Florida Southern College, 1966

Research focuses on tropical seabirds in the western Atlantic, as well as on how old growth forests support various bird communities.

Peer-reviewed

Haney, J. C., D. S. Lee, and M. Wilber. 2001. A half-century comparison of breeding birds in the southern Appalachians. Condor 103:268–277.

Lee, D. S., J. A. Gerwin, and R. B. Browning. 2001. Specimen documentation of unusual and previously unrecorded birds from North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 117(2):123–127.

Lee, D. S. and M. Walsh-McGehee. 2000. Population estimates and conservation status and management techniques for Tropicbirds in the Western North Atlantic. Caribbean Journal of Science 36(3–4):267–279.

Schreiber, E. A. and D. S. Lee, eds. 2000. Status and Conservation of West Indian Seabirds, Special Publication Number 1. Ruston, LA:Society of Caribbean Ornithology.

Wiley, R. H. and D. S. Lee. 2000. Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus). In Birds of North America, No. 483, eds. A. Poole and F. Gill, Philadelphia: The Birds of North America, Inc.

Non-peer-reviewed

1999. Book Review: A Birder's Guide to the Bahamas (including Turks and Caicos.) The Chat 63(1): 25-31.

1996. Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) in Birds of North America No. 257 (A. Poole and F. Gills, eds.) The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and the American Ornithologists' Union. Washington, D.C. (With J.C. Haney.)

1995. Observations of Marine Birds off the Coast of North Carolina. The Chat 59: 114- 171.

1994. Air-sea heat flux, ocean wind fields and offshore dispersal of gulls. Auk 111(2): 427-440. (With J.C. Haney.)

1992. A fourteen-year survey of plastic ingestion by western North Atlantic seabirds. Colonial Waterbirds 15(1): 83-94. (With M. Moser.)

1992. Geometry of visual recruitment by seabirds to ephemeral foraging flocks. Ornis Scandinavica 23: 49-62. (With J.C. Haney and K.M. Fristrup.)

1980. Atlas of North American Freshwater Fishes. N.C. State Museum Natural History, Raleigh. 854 pp. (With C.R. Gilbert, C.H. Hocutt, R.E. Jenkins, D.E. McAllister, and J.R. Stauffer, Jr.)