Author: Pemberton, J.E. (Ed)
Title: Who's Who in Ornithology
Description: Buckingham Press 1997 416, . . HB. Fine in d/w.. 1st edition. Biographical portraits of over 1,000 men and women significant in the field of ornithology, with details of their backgrounds and occupations, the offices they hold, the breadth of their activities, their specialisims and publications, their fieldwork and researches, their bird-related travels, their other interests and recreations, their memberships. Includes professionals such as biologists, ecologists, taxonomists, zoologists, researchers, writers, museum curators, artists, illustrators, lecturers, photographers. Others for whom birds fill their leisure time are also included - the solicitor who leads a ringing group, the bookseller with his long-term study of the Golden Plover, the electrical engineer who is bird recorder for his county, the shipping agent who has participated in the Nest Record Scheme since 1985, the Civil Servant who has systematicallyl surveyed the waterbirds on her chose stretch of the Grand Union Canal.. [9780951496589]

Keywords: Birds


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