Linda Macaulay’s Biography

Beaver College, B.A. 1968

Linda is the Chair of the Administrative Board of the Lab of Ornithology. She specializes in sound recordings of birds and animals outside of the United States. She has recorded birds in over 50 countries, including 26 African countries. She has contributed an astounding 650 first cuts to the Macaulay Library collection, representing more than 2800 different bird species and over 6,000 individual recordings. Many universities and organizations such as the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Zoological Society have used her recordings. She has also contributed to the discovery of new species with her recordings. She is the 2010 recipient of the Arthur Allen Award in ornithology.

She is a Trustee of Cornell University serving on the Academic Affairs Committee and Community Relations Committee.

She is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of American Museum of Natural History, where she serves on the Executive Committee and is Chairman of the Collections Committee. She also serves on the Science Policy Committee, Investment Committee, and Finance and Budget Committee. She has done volunteer work researching bird species in their Ornithological Department for many years.

She serves on the Board of the Rockfeller University serving on the Education Committee and the Hospital Committee.

She is a member of the Association of Field Ornithologists, the British Ornithologists Union, the American Birding Association, a founding member of the African Bird Club and a life member of the Nepal Bird Club.

Linda and her husband Bill reside in Greenwich, Connecticut. They have two daughters, Elizabeth (Cornell BA 2002) and Anne.