Adrian Skerrett

Adrian Paul Skerrett (* 1953 in Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire ) is a British - Seychellois businessman , conservationist , ornithologist and non-fiction author .

Life

From 1971 Skerrett studied economics at the University of Liverpool , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 . In 1980 he came to the Seychelles with his wife Judith, where he worked for Mahe Shipping as an auditor for two years . From 1984 to 1994 he was managing director there. He has been a resident of the country since 1994. He dedicated a large part of his life to ornithology and bird protection in the Seychelles. In 1992 Skerrett was one of the founders of the Seychelles Birds Records Committee. In 1998 he became a representative of the Seychelles in the African Bird Club . Since 2001 he has been chairman of the Islands Conservation Society and representative of the Seychelles in the Royal Naval Bird Watching Society .

Skerrett is a member of the editorial board of Silhouette magazine, Air Seychelles' in- flight magazine, and a regular contributor to the Seychelles Nation newspaper . He is also a businessman and director of several companies in the Seychelles that operate in the shipping and tourism sector.

Skerrett has published several travel guides and books on the avifauna, nature and history of the Seychelles, including Les merveilleux oiseaux des Seychelles (1988), The Beautiful Plants of Seychelles (1991), The Beauty of Seychelles (1991), Spectrum Guide to Seychelles ( 1991), A Birdwatchers' Guide to Seychelles (1992, with Ian Bullock ), Journey through Seychelles (1994, German: Reise durch die Seychelles , 1994), Beautiful Birds of Seychelles (1994), Aldabra: World Heritage Site (1995), Insight Pocket Guides - Seychelles (1998), Helm Field Guides: Birds of Seychelles (2001, with Ian Bullock and Tony Disley, published in the United States as Princeton Field Guides: Birds of the Seychelles ), Zwazo Sesel: The Names of Seychelles Birds and their Meanings (2003), A Checklist of the Birds of Seychelles (2007), Outer Islands of Seychelles (2010), Helm Field Guides: Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean (2015, with Frank Hawkins and Roger Safford ), Complete Birds of Seychelles (2016), Aride Island Tread Lightly (2016) and Berlitz Pocket Guides: Seychelles (2017).

In 2000 he worked as a scientific advisor on the nature documentary series Nova and Natural World .

Web links

• Choosing which bird to save - Adrian Skerrett pleads the case for Yellow Bittern in Seychelles (with short biography)
• Employee profile at the Island Conservation Society
• LinkedIn profile
• Adrian Skerrett in the Internet Movie Database (English)