Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. (born July 23, 1944, in Charlotte, North Carolina),[1] often credited in the short form H. Douglas Pratt or as Doug Pratt, is an American ornithologist, bio acoustican, wildlife photographer, bird illustrator, and musician. His main research field are the endemic avifaunas of Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific where he was one of the pioneers of the voice recordings of birds. Pratt is a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union.
In 1975, Pratt was one of the last scientists who were able to photograph the possible extinct ʻōʻū[3] and one of several scientists to record the song of the extinct Kauaʻi oʻo.[4]
Besides his scientific work Pratt is also a musician. He plays autoharp and won the Walnut Valley Festival International Autoharp Championship in 2006.[7] In 2012, he published his first record You Can't Play That on the Autoharp!
^Robert D. Craig, Russell T. Clement: Who's Who in Oceania p 155, 1980–1981. Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus. Institute for Polynesian Studies
^ abPratt, H. Douglas (2009). "Biography". Retrieved January 5, 2010.
^Sheila Conant, H. Douglas Pratt & Robert J. Shallenberger: Reflections on a 1975 expedition to the lost world of the Alakai and other notes on the natural history, systematics, and conservation of Kauai birds In: Wilson Bulletin, 110(l), 1998, p. l-22
^ abPratt, H. Douglas; Bruner, Philip L.; Berret, Delwyn G. (1987). A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press. pp. 283, 284. ISBN0-691-02399-9.
