Anthony W. Diamond

Anthony William "Tony" Diamond (born September 5, 1944 in Calcutta , India ) is a British-Canadian ecologist, ornithologist and conservationist with research experience in America, Africa and Europe.

Life

Diamond is the son of William Howard Peter and Dorothy Gladys Diamond. After graduating from Bristol Grammar School in 1962, he graduated from Queens' College , Cambridge , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1966 . In 1963 he was an assistant guard and ringer at the Skokholm ornithological station in Wales . From 1967 to 1968 he was an expedition member of the Royal Society of London to the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean. 1968 graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a Master of Science. In 1971 he graduated from the same university with a dissertation The ecology of seabirds breeding at Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean. for Ph.D. PhD. From 1970 to 1971 he worked as a research assistant to David Lack in Jamaica. He also worked at the University of Oxford until 1973 . From 1973 to 1975 he was a research manager in the International Council for Bird Preservation led (ICBP) research station on the strictly protected the Seychelles cousin . In 1975 he made an expedition to the Cayman Islands . From 1976 to 1980 he taught ecology at the University of Nairobi . From 1982 to 1983 he was an advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Trinidad and Tobago . From 1983 to 1987 he was a scientific advisor to the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa. In 1987 he was one of the initiators of the ICBP Save the Birds campaign , which was supported in Germany by Rudolf L. Schreiber , Horst Stern and Gerhard Thielcke , among others , and documented in the book Save the Birds (German: Rettet die Vogelwelt ). From 1987 to 1988 he coordinated the program for the long-range transport of air pollutants on behalf of the Canadian Wildlife Service and the National Wildlife Research Center in Ottawa. From 1988 to 1991 he was director of bird migration studies and operations leader at the Canadian Wildlife Service Prairie and Northern Wildlife Research Center Saskatoon , Saskatchewan . From 1989 to 1994 he taught as a private lecturer in the biological department of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. From 1996 to 2002 he served on the boards of the Nature Trust of New Brunswick and the National Council for Bird Studies in Canada. From 1998 to 1999 he was President of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists . Since 1990 he has been an elected member of the American Ornithologists' Union . From 2002 to 2004 he was a council member of the Waterbirds Society. In addition to Save the Birds (1987), Diamond co-authored The Birds of East Africa: Their Habitat, Status and Distribution (1980), Conservation of Tropical Forest Birds (1985) , Studies of Mascarene Island Birds (1987), The Value of Birds (1987), Biology and Conservation of Forest Birds (1999) and Canadian Atlas of Bird Banding (2000).

literature

• Elizabeth Lumley: Canadian Who's Who 2009: Volume XLIV . University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2009. ISBN 978-0802040923 . Pp. 341-342.

Web links

• Atlantic Laboratory for Avian Research University of New Brunswick Profile
• Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Management University of New Brunswick Profile