Ian Wallace (ornithologist)
Ian Wallace (actually Donald Ian Mackenzie Wallace , born December 14, 1933 in Great Yarmouth , Norfolk ) is a British ornithologist and bird illustrator.
Life
In 1954 Wallace graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts in business and law. In the same year he worked in marketing and in the management of the Loretto School Ornithological Society. From 1956 to 1957 he was President of the Cambridge Bird Club. From 1959 to 1960 he worked as editor-in-chief for the ornithological department of the London Natural History Society . From 1963 to 1970 he was chairman of the St. Agnes ornithological station in the Isles of Scilly . Since the 1960s he has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of the British Trust for Ornithology , the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the British Ornithologists' Union . From 1972 to 1976 he was chairman of the rarities committee of the British Birds Charitable Trust. In 1972 he was a founding member of the Flamborough Ornithological Group and its chairman until 1991. He has been Honorary President for life since 2000. In 1964 he was a founding member of the Society of Wildlife Artists .
Wallace conducted several population studies on birds, including in Regent's Park , London, from 1951 to 1965, in Nanyuki and Lake Nakuru in Kenya from 1952 to 1954, in Lagos , Nigeria from 1968 to 1971, in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor in Yorkshire from 1979 to 1985 and in Needwood Forest in Staffordshire. Expeditions took him to St. Kilda, Canada (1956), Arctic Norway and Finland (1957), Spain (from 1960 to 1961), Lebanon, Syria and Jordan (1963, 1965 and 1966), to northern Nigeria (1971), to Baluchistan (1972), to Nova Scotia (1975 and 1978) as well as to Siberia and Mongolia (1980).
From 1972 to 1976 Wallace was an editor at British Birds magazine . From 1978 to 1993 he was one of the editors and illustrators of the book series The Birds of the Western Palearctic (BWP). Since 1986 he has been a columnist for Bird Watching magazine . From the 1950s onwards, he occasionally contributed to documentaries for the BBC and the ITV television channel.
Works (selection)
- Discover Birds , 1979
- Birdwatching in the Seventies , 1981
- Watching Birds , 1982 (with Alan Harris , Ian Jackson and Rick Morris)
- Birds of Prey , 1982 (with Peter Holden, RF Porter and David Wright)
- Birds of prey of Britain and Europe , 1983
- Mysteries & marvels of bird life , 1984 (with Rob Hume and Rick Morris)
- Birds by character: Britain & Europe: the fieldguide to jizz identification , 1990 (with Rob Hume)
- Birds of Britain and Europe , 1993 (with Roger Tory Peterson , Guy Mountfort and PAD Hollom )
- Rob Hume: Discovering Birds , A & C Black, 1993 (illustrated by Ian Wallace) ISBN 0-903138-53-0 (German: Discovering birds and determining: the birds of Europe in their habitats , Bertelsmann, 1994, ISBN 3-570- 12016-3 , translated by Christoph Arndt)
- Beguiled by birds: Ian Wallace on British birdwatching , 2004
- Leonard Jenyns: Darwin's lifelong friend , 2005
literature
- John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9514965-8-9 , pp. 387-388
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wallace, Ian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wallace, Donald Ian Mackenzie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ornithologist and bird illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Yarmouth , Norfolk |