Barbara Mearns

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Barbara Crawford Mearns (born May 12, 1955 in Greenock , Renfrewshire ) is a Scottish author of ornithologist biographies. Further areas of interest are bird watching and environmental protection .

Life

Mearns is the daughter of George and Jean Crawford, née Kinloch. Her father was a teacher. In 1973 she began studying occupational therapy at the Astley Ainslie College of Occupational Therapy in Dumfries , which she graduated from the British Association of Occupational Therapists with a degree in 1975. From 1976 to 1980 she worked in child psychiatry at the Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries. From 1980 to 1981 she studied at the Bible Training Institute of Glasgow. In April 1981 she married Richard Mearns (* 1950), a park ranger and ornithologist. Since 1985 she has been a member of the A Rocha Trust , an international, Christian environmental protection organization that maintains study centers in Canada, Kenya, Portugal, France and the Czech Republic. The initiatives of this association include the protection of the Aammiq swamps in Lebanon, project aid to generate sustainable incomes in impoverished communities and the protection of the dry savannah in Ghana . From 1997 to 2002 Mearns coordinated the UK office and communications work for this organization and has been an administrator at A Rocha International since 2002. Since 1988 she and her husband have published biographers on ornithologists, including Biographies for Birdwatchers: The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names (1988), Audubon to Xántus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names (illustrated by Dana Gardner , 1992), The Bird Collectors (1998) and John Kirk Townsend: Collector of Audubon's Western Birds and Mammals (2007). In 2012 she published the volume of poetry Bairns and Beasts together with Leonie Ewing .

literature

  • John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0951496589 , p. 246

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personal data
SURNAME Mearns, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mearns, Barbara Crawford (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish author of ornithologist biographies
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenock , Renfrewshire