Keith Alfred Hindwood

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Keith Alfred Hindwood (born July 3, 1904 in Willoughby , Sydney , New South Wales , † March 18, 1971 in Sydney , New South Wales) was an Australian ornithologist and businessman.

Live and act

Keith Alfred Hindwood was the younger of two sons and the third of four children of Alfred Joseph and Ida Ellen Hindwood, née Phillips. His father was a stationery dealer . Hindwood went to North Sydney Public School until he was 14. In 1928 he founded a stationery wholesaler for paper, office and printing supplies. In the 1950s he converted the business into a company and ran it until his retirement in 1970. In 1936 he married Marjorie Goddard, a stenographer in Darlinghurst .

In 1924 Hindwood joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union , for whose journal Emu he wrote 185 articles. His first contribution, which appeared in 1926, was a detailed study of the stone Skitterer ( Origma solitaria ). Between 1928 and 1937, 52 of Hindwood's nature photos were published in the Sydney Mail . From 1931 to 1932 he wrote the column Nature Notes and Studies in the daily newspaper The Land under the pseudonym Oriole . He made regular excursions into the various habitats of the birds around Sydney to determine the restricted range of the cairn in New South Wales.

Always interested in ornithological history, Hindwood was a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society . His honeymoon on Lord Howe Island sparked the ambition to research the island's ornithological history. The results of this study, in which he described in detail the extinction of various endemic bird species, were published in 1940 in the journal Emu under the title The Birds of Lord Howe Island . He later wrote about the pioneering Australian naturalists and the artists of the colonial era, including George Raper . His books include The Waders of Sydney (with Ernest Sydney Hoskin , 1955), The Birds of Sydney (with Arnold Robert McGill , 1958), Australian Birds in Color (1966) and A Portfolio of Australian Birds (with illustrations by William Thomas Cooper , 1968). In 1961 and 1962 he accompanied the zoologists Kent Keith and Dominic Serventy on board the research vessel HMAS Gascoyne into the Coral Sea . Her research on the avifauna of this region was published in 1963 by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization under the title Birds of the South-West Coral Sea .

Honors and memberships

Hindwood was a volunteer ornithologist and research fellow at the Australian Museum . In 1931 he was elected a lifelong member of the Gould League of Bird Lovers of New South Wales. In 1938 he became a corresponding member of the American Ornithologists' Union . In 1939 he became President and 1950 Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales . From 1944 to 1946 he was elected President and in 1951 a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union. In 1959 he was awarded the Medal of the Royal Australian Historical Society.

Dedication names

Walter E. Boles and Wayne Longmore named the Eungella honey eater ( Bolemoreus hindwoodi ) in 1983 in honor of Keith Alfred Hindwood.

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SURNAME Hindwood, Keith Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hindwood, Keith A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian ornithologist and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Willoughby , Sydney , New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1971
Place of death Sydney , New South Wales