Janet Kear

Janet Kear OBE (born January 13, 1933 in London , † November 24, 2004 ) was a British ornithologist who was mainly specialized in ducks .

Kear was born in London. She attended Walthamstow Hall , Sevenoaks , Caspar Junior College, Wyoming, King's College London , and then Girton College , Cambridge , where she received her PhD in finch food ecology in 1959 .

In 1959 she became an employee of Peter Markham Scotts Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire and was instrumental in rescue operations for the Hawaiigans . In 1970 she became a curator of one of the Trust's centers in Martin Mere, Lancashire . From 1981 to 1991 she was initially Vice-President of the British Ornithologists' Union and was the first woman to chair this association from 1991 to 1995. From 1980 to 1988 she was the editor of the ornithological magazine Ibis . She has published several books and is the editor of the standard work Ducks, Geese and Swans , published by Oxford University Press . However, she died shortly before the publication of the two-volume work. Among the awards she has received throughout her life is the 1993 Order of the British Empire award .

Publications (selection)

• Janet Kear: Food Selection in Certain Finches, with Special Reference to Inter Specific Differences , University of Cambridge, 1959.
• Janet Kear: Flamingos . T. & AD Poyser, London 1975.
• Janet Kear: The Hawaiian goose: an experiment in conservation (with Andrew John Berger ). Buteo Books, 1980, ISBN 0-931130-04-2 .
• Janet Kear: Man and Wildfowl . T. & AD Poyser, London 1990, ISBN 0-85661-055-0 .
• Janet Kear: Swans (German version by Swans ) (with Teiji Saga). Schirmer-Mosel Verlag GmbH, 1990, ISBN 3-88814-349-7 .
• Janet Kear (Ed.): Ducks, Geese and Swans . Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-854645-9 .

Web links

• Obituary in The Guardian
• Obituary in The Auk