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[[File:Bittern - Emma Turner.jpg|thumb|[[Eurasian bittern]] (''Botaurus stellaris'') by Turner, 1911]]
[[File:Bittern - Emma Turner.jpg|thumb|[[Eurasian bittern]] (''Botaurus stellaris'') by Turner, 1911]]


She was described as being " …small in stature but very wiry, quite capable with a punt or rowing boat".<ref name="NHPT">{{cite web|url=http://norfolkcoast.co.uk/pasttimes/pt_emmaturner.htm|title=Emma Turner of Hickling Broad Norfolk|work=Norfolk History and Past Times|accessdate=29 January 2012}}</ref> She took up photography after meeting [[Richard Kearton]] in 1900.<ref name="ALitR" /><ref name="Double" />
She was described as being " …small in stature but very wiry, quite capable with a punt or rowing boat".<ref name="NHPT">{{cite web|url=http://norfolkcoast.co.uk/pasttimes/pt_emmaturner.htm |title=Emma Turner of Hickling Broad Norfolk |work=Norfolk History and Past Times |accessdate=29 January 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129003751/http://norfolkcoast.co.uk:80/pasttimes/pt_emmaturner.htm |archivedate=29 January 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> She took up photography after meeting [[Richard Kearton]] in 1900.<ref name="ALitR" /><ref name="Double" />


For 20 years, she lived and worked for part of each year<ref name="BB34:4" /> (including some winters<ref name="Double">{{cite web|url=http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/articles/a-double-century-for-bitterns|title=A double century for Bitterns|publisher=British Birds|accessdate=29 January 2012}}</ref>) at [[Hickling Broad]] in Norfolk,<ref name="ALitR" /> chiefly on a [[houseboat]] of her own design, which she named ''Water Rail'' after the first photograph she took in [[Norfolk Broads|the Broads]], of a [[water rail]].<ref name="ALitR" /> She also had a hut on a small island in the south-east of Hickling Broad,<ref name="NHPT" /> which became known as Turner's Island<ref name="ALitR" /><ref name="NHPT" /> ({{Coord|52.735206|1.586171|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline}}).
For 20 years, she lived and worked for part of each year<ref name="BB34:4" /> (including some winters<ref name="Double">{{cite web|url=http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/articles/a-double-century-for-bitterns|title=A double century for Bitterns|publisher=British Birds|accessdate=29 January 2012}}</ref>) at [[Hickling Broad]] in Norfolk,<ref name="ALitR" /> chiefly on a [[houseboat]] of her own design, which she named ''Water Rail'' after the first photograph she took in [[Norfolk Broads|the Broads]], of a [[water rail]].<ref name="ALitR" /> She also had a hut on a small island in the south-east of Hickling Broad,<ref name="NHPT" /> which became known as Turner's Island<ref name="ALitR" /><ref name="NHPT" /> ({{Coord|52.735206|1.586171|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline}}).

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Emma Louisa Turner
FLS, MBOU
Born1866
Died13 August 1940 age 74
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Known forBird photography

Emma Louisa Turner FLS (1866 – 13 August 1940[1][2][3]) was an ornithologist and pioneering bird photographer whose 1911 picture of a nestling bittern in Norfolk was the first evidence of their return to the United Kingdom as a breeding bird after local extinction since the late 1800s.[4]

Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris) by Turner, 1911

She was described as being " …small in stature but very wiry, quite capable with a punt or rowing boat".[5] She took up photography after meeting Richard Kearton in 1900.[4][6]

For 20 years, she lived and worked for part of each year[3] (including some winters[6]) at Hickling Broad in Norfolk,[4] chiefly on a houseboat of her own design, which she named Water Rail after the first photograph she took in the Broads, of a water rail.[4] She also had a hut on a small island in the south-east of Hickling Broad,[5] which became known as Turner's Island[4][5] (52°44′07″N 1°35′10″E / 52.735206°N 1.586171°E / 52.735206; 1.586171).

She became the first "watcher" (warden) on the National Trust's Scolt Head.[3][7]

Her bittern picture resulted in her being awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.[4] She was one of the first ten women fellows of the Linnaean Society[4] and the first female honorary member of the British Ornithologists' Union.[4] Though not a graduate,[8] she was also an honorary member of the British Federation of University Women.[7]

Her book, Broadland Birds, was published in 1924[9] and formed the basis of a radio programme about her life, Emma Turner; a life in the reeds, broadcast by the BBC in 2012,[4] produced by Sarah Blunt and with sound recordings by Chris Watson.[4]

She was also a keen gardener,[8] at her homes in Girton, Cambridgeshire[8] and Cambridge,[8] and kept Terriers, which she trained to flush birds so that she could count them.[7] She lost her sight two years before her death.[3]

Bibliography

  • Turner, Emma (1907). The Home Life of Some Marsh Birds. H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Turner, Emma (1924). Broadland Birds. Country Life. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Turner, Emma (1928). Birdwatching on Scolt Head. Country Life. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Turner, Emma (1935). Every Garden a Bird Sanctuary. H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

References

  1. ^ "Miss E. L. Turner". The Times. London, England. 19 August 1940. p. 7.
  2. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1940. "TURNER Emma Louisa of 13 Storeys Way Cambridge spinster died 13 August 1940 Probate Llandudno 18 November to Enid Mary Fowler (wife of John Britton Fowler) and Geoffrey Cater Turner paymaster-lieutenant R.N. Effects £3031 0s. 10d."
  3. ^ a b c d B.B.R. (April 1940). "Miss E. L. Turner". British Birds. 34 (4): 85.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Emma Turner; a life in the reeds". Nature. 24 January 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 24 January 2012. {{cite episode}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |transcripturl= (help); Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |seriesno= ignored (|series-number= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b c "Emma Turner of Hickling Broad Norfolk". Norfolk History and Past Times. Archived from the original on 29 January 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b "A double century for Bitterns". British Birds. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  7. ^ a b c Women in Science – a Biographical Dictionary to 1950. ISBN 1-57607-090-5.
  8. ^ a b c d H-W, A. (January 1941). "Miss Emma Louise Turner". Ibis. 83 (1): 188–189. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1941.tb00609.x.
  9. ^ Turner, Emma (1924). Broadland Birds. Country Life.
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