Angela K. Turner
Angela Kathleen Turner (born December 25, 1954 in London ) is a British ornithologist at the University of Nottingham . Her main interest is the swallows .
Life
Turner studied from 1973 at the Royal Holloway College in London, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in zoology and botany in 1976 . In 1981, she was with the dissertation The Use of Time and Energy by aerial feeding birds at the University of Stirling for Ph.D. PhD in ornithology . For this purpose, she studied the feeding behavior of barn swallows and sand martins in central Scotland between 1977 and 1980 . From 1981 to 1982 she completed her post-doctoral phase in Venezuela and Malaysia , where she did research on the behavior and ecology of swallows and swifts . Since 1986, Turner has been the editor-in-chief of Animal Behavior magazine, the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior . She has written specialist articles for the journals Bird Study , Ibis , Animal Behavior and Journal of Animal Ecology as well as popular scientific articles for BBC Wildlife , Birds , British Birds and The Guardian . In addition to several books of his own, including A Handbook to the Swallows and Martins of the World from 1989, Turner wrote chapters or sections on swallows in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds (1990) by Christopher M. Perrins , The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology (1991) by Michael Brooke and Tim Birkhead and in the ninth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (2004).
Fonts
- with Felicity A. Huntingford: Animal Conflict , 1987
- with Peter S. Maitland: Angling and Wild Life in Freshwaters: Proceedings of a Symposium Organized by the Scottish Freshwater Group and the British Ecological Society, University of Stirling, 30 October 1985 (ITE symposium) , 1987
- with Chris Rose : A Handbook to the Swallows and Martins of the World , 1989
- with Pat Monaghan: Animal Behavior Practicals , 1989
- with Clio L. Barr, Helen Creighton, Roger Tippett: River pollution: A case study , 1989
- Hamlyin Species Guide: The Swallow , 1994
- with Clare Deansley, Chris Papanicolaou: Badlands II , 1997
- The Barn Swallow , 2006
- Swallow , 2015
literature
- John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-95149-658-9 , p. 376
Web links
- LinkedIn profile
- Bibliography at Researchgate
- Literature by and about Angela K. Turner in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turner, Angela K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Turner, Angela Kathleen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ornithologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |