# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-fjeldsa
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:16.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-fjeldsa"
name: "Jon Fjeldså"
slug: "jon-fjeldsa"
description: "Jon Fjeldså is a Norwegian-born Danish ornithologist and bird artist. Fjeldså has authored several books and published numerous research papers, primarily focusing on grebes, birds of the Andes and Eastern Arc Mountains, and evolution of passerines. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Copenhagen."
tagline: "Danish ornithologist of Norwegian ancestry"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.23
  momentum:             12.53521126760563
  historical:           6.803204
  currentAttention:     55.55555555555554
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fjelds%C3%A5"
    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fjelds%C3%A5"
    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fjelds%C3%A5"
    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fjelds%C3%A5"
    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fjelds%C3%A5"
    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fjelds%C3%A5"
    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fjelds%C3%A5"
    title: "Jon Fjeldså"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump