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  • The British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) aims to encourage the study of birds (ornithology) around the world in order to understand their biology and aid...
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    Frederick DuCane Godman (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. Along with Osbert Salvin, he is remembered for studying the...
    21 KB (1,925 words) - 04:01, 27 July 2024
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    William Homan Thorpe (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    the Gifford lectures from 1969 to 1971. He was president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1955 to 1960. Hinde, R. A. (1987). "William Homan Thorpe...
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    Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, FRS (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist...
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  • Avian Science, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union. It was established in 1859. Topics covered include ecology...
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  • Ian Newton (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    Oxford. Newton has also held the positions of President of the British Ornithologists' Union and the British Ecological Society (1994–1995). Finches (Collins...
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  • Chris Perrins (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    awards for his research, including the Godman-Salvin Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1988, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...
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  • Stanley Cramp (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), as well as the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU), serving in various administrative positions in all...
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    William Lutley Sclater (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    of The Zoological Record from 1921 to 1937, president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1928 to 1933, and secretary of the Royal Geographical...
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    Percy Lowe (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    British Ornithologists' Club from 1920 to 1925 and president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1938 to 1943. In 1933 he was one of eleven people involved...
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  • John Croxall (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    John Patrick Croxall CBE FRS (born 19 January 1946 in Birmingham) is a British biologist, and was Head of Conservation Biology at the British Antarctic...
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    Harry Forbes Witherby (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    Ornithologists' Club (1924–1927) and President of the Council of the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) (1933–1938). In 1933 he was one of eleven people, involved...
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  • Norman Boyd Kinnear (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    British Ornithologists' Club from 1925 to 1930 and president of the British Ornithologists' Union (which he joined when he was 20) from 1943 to 1948. He was...
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  • Janet Kear (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    on ducks. She was the first woman to become president of the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU). Kear was born in Middlesex, the younger daughter of...
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    Henry John Elwes (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    Henry John Elwes, FRS (16 May 1846 – 26 November 1922) was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller who became...
    16 KB (1,748 words) - 09:07, 11 June 2024
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    Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    young boy and in 1872 (aged 20) he was elected a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and was later (1913-1918) to become its president. He was...
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    David Snow (ornithologist) (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    Natural History Museum. From 1987 to 1990 he was president of the British Ornithologists' Union. David Snow edited The Ibis, Bird Study and the Bulletin of...
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    Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    fourth baron in 1861. Lilford was one of the eight founders of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1858 and its president from 1867 until his death. He was...
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    William Eagle Clarke (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    proposer being Ramsay Heatley Traquair. He was President of the British Ornithologists Union in 1918. He was also secretary and president of the Yorkshire...
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  • Guy Mountfort (category Presidents of the British Ornithologists' Union)
    Guy Mountfort OBE (4 December 1905 – 23 April 2003) was an English advertising executive, amateur ornithologist and conservationist. He is known for writing...
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