Ian Newton

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Ian Newton OBE (born January 17, 1940 in Chesterfield , Derbyshire , England ) is a British ornithologist. His research focus is avian ecology.

Life

Newton is the son of the cabinet maker Haydn Edwin Newton and the music teacher Nellie Newton, née Stubbs. After graduating from Chesterfield Grammar School, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Bristol in 1961 . In 1962 he married Halina Teresa Bialkowska, with whom he has two sons and a daughter. In 1964 he was with a thesis on the ecology of the finches for Ph.D. from Worcester College and in 1982 he received his Doctor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford .

From 1971 Newton researched birds of prey and other bird populations, including in particular the monitoring of pesticide residues in certain bird species and the assessment of the impact on their populations. One of his most famous long-term studies is a work on breeding sparrowhawks in the south of Scotland, which he carried out over a period of 27 years and which is one of the most detailed and longest running research on a bird of prey population.

Memberships

From 1967 to 1973 Newton was a member of the Nature Conservancy in Edinburgh . From 1989 to 1993 he was Vice President and from 1999 to 2003 President of the British Ornithologists' Union . From 1994 to 1995 he was President of the British Ecological Society . From 2003 to 2008 he was the Council Chairman of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . From 2005 to 2008 he was Chairman of the Board of the Peregrine Fund . From 2009 to 2013 he was chairman of the British Trust for Ornithology .

Honors

In 1983 Newton was elected an honorary member of the American Ornithologists' Union . In 1987 he received the Union Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union . In 1989 he was awarded the President's Medal of the British Ecological Society . In 1991 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . In 1993 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and in 1994 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In 1995 he received the Elliott Coues Award from the American Ornithologists' Union and the Marsh Award in Conservation Biology from the Zoological Society of London . In 1999 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield . In 2010 he was awarded the Godman-Salvin Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union. In 2014 he was honored with the Salim Ali International Award for Nature Conservation from the Bombay Natural History Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1972: Finches
  • 1979: Population ecology of raptors
  • 1986: The Sparrowhawk . T&AD Poyser. ISBN 0-85661-041-0
  • 1998: Population Limitation in Birds
  • 2003: The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds
  • 2007: The Ecology of Bird Migration
  • 2010: Bird Migration . Collins New Naturalist Library.
  • 2013: Bird Populations , William Collins, London
  • 2017: Farming and Birds , William Collins, London

literature

  • John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9514965-8-9 , pp. 265-266
  • Ian Newton. American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Biography in Context, online. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  • Ian Newton. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2014. Biography in Context, online. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  • Who's Who 2017, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 NEWTON, Prof. Ian , accessed April 27, 2017.

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