Cade, Thomas J (Joseph) (1928– )

US ornithologist. A professor of zoology at various US universities, in the early 1970s he collected and bred wild peregrine falcons from Canada and the western USA for release and reestablishment in the eastern USA. He is known for his research on the population biology and behaviour of peregrine falcons at the Peregrine Fund in Boise.

He was born in San Angelo, Texas. He was an associate in zoology at the University of California at Los Angeles 1955–58, then took a National Science Foundation fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley 1958–59. He was professor of zoology at Syracuse University 1959–67, then moved to Cornell 1967–88. He became a professor of biology at Boise State University (Idaho) in 1988