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.

Richard R. Veit
Born	Richard Reed Veit (1957-06-02) June 2, 1957 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Scientific career
Fields	Ornithology
Institutions	The College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Notable students	José R. Ramírez-Garofalo
Website	https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/richard-veit

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. ISBN 978–0932691118
• 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. ISBN 1-877973-48-3

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: 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: 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: 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: 551–564.