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Fernando Ignacio Ortiz-Crespo (July 1942 - 13 September 2001) was an Ecuadorian ornithologist and conservation pioneer of the biodiversity of the Americas.

He studied under the tutelage of Orcés at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional and later continued his education first at the University of St. Louis, Missouri and then UC Berkeley.

Between 1980-2001, Ortiz-Crespo published several scientific manuscripts, books and travelled extensively doing research.

Upon his return he helped established the Biological Sciences career at the at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador) in Quito. He was director at INGALA at the Galápagos Islands. Given his intellectual breath and reach a school that carries his name was established in Zámbiza, an impoverished locality in Quito, to help and encourage school aged children to pursue environmental causes.

Biography
Ortiz-Crespo was born in Quito, Ecuador. He studied high-school

He then studied in the United States of America and holds a M.Sc. Vassar College, 1969, and a Ph.D. Emory University, 1972.

Upon returning to Ecuador in 1972 she became professor of Biology at PUCE,

He was professor of Biology from 1972 to 2013.

She served as Head of Biological Sciences, from 1973–1975.

Research and Career
Hers is a story of relentless determination and embracing every opportunity that was offered to her by a number of institutions. She

Ortiz-Crespo's PhD dissertation at the University of California at Berkeley was on the ecology and behavior of hummingbirds.

He received a M.Sc. from the the Upon his return from the USA together with Laura Arcos and Eugenia del Pino he helped implement Biological Sciences research and teaching at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador where he was founding director of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences. An expert on the birds around his home city of Quito, he died in a boating accident on nearby Lake Mica, where he had been carrying out fieldwork on migratory birds. Ortiz Crespo developed a passion for the paramo highlands of Ecuador, where he was fascinated by the endemic vegetation as well as the birds. He was a corresponding member of the British Union of Ornithologists.

n 2013, the Secretariat of Science and Technology of Ecuador (SENESCYT)

of the Galápagos Archipelago. Sh

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Sources:

N.L. Newfield, 2001, "A Remembrance of Fernando Ortiz-Crespo":

http://www.hummingbirds.net/humnotes.html, accessed 15 December 2009

F. Ortiz-Crespo, 1975, "Lista de aves del Ecuador", Publicaciones de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana 'Francisco Campos' de Amigos de la Naturaleza, 1(2).