Richard Veit

Richard R. Veit (born June 2, 1957) is an American ornithologist and ecologist known for his research on seabirds and their population dynamics.

Career and research His work has focused on how factors such as physical oceanography and climate change impact seabird distribution and behavior. Veit is a professor of biology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), where he has been a faculty member since 1996.

Veit has been an editor of publications for the Nuttall Ornithological Club since 2002.

Selected publications Books Veit, R.R., & Petersen, W.R. (1993). Birds of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Audubon Society. Nisbet, I.C.T., Veit, R.R., Auer, S.A., & White, T.P. 2013. Marine Birds of the Eastern United States and the Bay of Fundy. Nuttall Ornithological Club.

Articles Ramírez-Garofalo, J., Curley, S.R., Ciancimino, A.V., Matarazzo, R.V. , Johnson, E.W., and R. R. Veit. 2020. The Re-establishment of Pileated Woodpeckers in New York City Following Nearly Two Centuries of Extirpation. Northeastern Naturalist 27: pages 803–816. Veit, R.R. and M.A. Lewis. 1996. Dispersal, population growth, and the Allee Effect: Dynamics of the House Finch Invasion of eastern North America. The American Naturalist 148: pages 255–274. Veit, R.R., P. Pyle.and J.A. McGowan. 1996. Ocean warming and long-term change in pelagic bird abundance within the California Current System. Marine Ecology Progress Series 139: pages 11–18. Veit, R.R., E.D. Silverman, and I. Everson. 1993. Aggregation patterns of pelagic predators and their principal prey, Antarctic krill, near South Georgia. Journal of Animal Ecology 62: pages 551–564.