Norman Arlott

Norman Arthur Arlott (born November 15, 1947 in Reading , Berkshire ) is a British bird illustrator .

Life

After completing his training at the Storeham Boys School, Arlott completed a five-year engineering apprenticeship. His career as a professional bird artist began after meeting the bird photographer Eric Hosking , who enabled him to contact the Welsh ornithologist John George Williams . Williams was looking for an illustrator for an updated version of his 1963 book A Field Guide to the Birds of East and Central Africa , and after Arlott sent Williams a sample board, he was invited to Nairobi and hired. Arlott spent three months in Africa creating color illustrations of 600 species for Williams' A Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa , published in 1980. Arlott has been an illustrator for over 150 books and magazines, including thirteen of the 17 volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

During the 1980s he was engaged in various projects for the Natural History Museum in London, including a series of display boards depicting the various birds in a variety of coastal, mountain, forest and estuary landscapes. He has also designed over 20 commemorative editions of the Commonwealth featuring birds from the Bahamas , Jamaica , Seychelles , Christmas Island , Gambia , Malawi, and the British Virgin Islands , as well as creating images that have been reproduced on placemats and pottery. He was also the director of bird exploration tours in East Africa.

In 1980 and 1981, Arlott was named Bird Illustrator of the Year by British Birds magazine .

In 2001 Arlott discovered a specimen of a subspecies of the breast band ant pitta in the collection of the Natural History Museum , which was collected in 1878 but had not yet been described. Robert Prys-Jones and Paul Salaman described this taxon, which may now be extinct, as Grallaria milleri gilesi in 2009.

Works (selection)

illustrator

• Peter Conder : RSPB Guide to Birdwatching , 1978
• John G. Williams, Andrew E. Williams, Norman Arlott: A Field Guide to the Orchids of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East , 1978 (German: Orchideen Europäische mit Nordafrika und Kleinasien, 1979)
• Roger Caras : The Forest (A Dramatic Portrait of Life in the American Wild) , 1979
• John G. Williams, Norman Arlott: A Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa , 1980
• Gerald S. Tuck: A Guide to Seabirds on the Ocean Routes , 1981
• Jim Flegg , Norman Arlott, Robert Gillmor, Laurel Tucker: Notebook of Birds 1907-1980; Original notes from British Birds , 1981
• Richard Fitter , Alastair Fitter, Norman Arlott: Complete Guide to British Wild Life , 1981
• Clare Lloyd: Birdwatching on Estuaries, Coast, and Sea , 1981
• Terence Lambert, John Gooders, Norman Arlott: British Birds , 1982
• JTR Sharrock and PJ Grant: Birds New to Britain and Ireland , 1982
• Jim Flegg: In Search of Birds Their Haunts and Habitats , 1983
• Jim Flegg, Eric Hosking, David Hosking, Norman Arlott: Just A Lark! , 1984
• Nigel J. Collar , SN Stuart: Threatened Birds of Africa and related islands. The ICBP / IUCN Red Data Book, Part I, 1985
• Keith Ronald Snow : Birds in Your Garden , 1985
• Richard Fitter, Norman Arlott, Kim Franklin, Sally Hughes, Charles Stitt: Wildlife for Man: How and Why We Should Conserve Our Species , 1986
• Guy Mountfort , Norman Arlott: Handbook of Rare Birds of the World , 1988
• John G. Williams, Norman Arlott: Birds of East Africa , 1993
• Roger Caras, Steven Foster: A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants: North America North of Mexico , 1994
• Peter Hayman , Norman Arlott, Warwick Tarboton: Birds of Southern Africa - The Sasol Plates Collection , 1994
• Peter Clement : The Chiffchaff , 1995
• Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe: Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi , 2002
• Steve Madge , Philip McGowan and Guy M. Kirwan : Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse. A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails and Sandgrouse of the world , 2002
• Phil Hockey , Norman Arlott: Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa , 2007
• Ian Sinclair, Peter G. Ryan , Patrice Christy, Phil Hockey, Norman Arlott, Peter Hayman , Alan Harris : Birds of Africa South of the Sahara: A Comprehensive Illustrated Field Guide , 2008
• Josep del Hoyo , Nigel J. Collar, David A. Christie , Andrew Elliott, Lincoln DC Fishpool: HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World: Volume 1: Non-Passerines , 2014
• James A. Eaton , Frank E. Rheindt , Bas van Balen , Nick W. Brickle: Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago , 2016
• Josep del Hoyo, Nigel J. Collar, David A. Christie, Andrew Elliott, Lincoln DC Fishpool, Peter Boesman, Guy M. Kirwan: HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World: Volume 2: Passerines , 2016
• Richard Craik, Lê Quý Minh: Birds of Vietnam , Lynx Edicions, 2018

author

• Norman Arlott: Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Passerines: Tyrant Flycatchers to Buntings , 2007
• Norman Arlott, Moss Taylor: Identifying Birds by Color , 2008
• Norman Arlott: Collins Field Guide Birds of the Palearctic , 2009
• Norman Arlott: Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Non-Passerines: Loons to Woodpeckers , 2009
• Norman Arlott: Birds of the West Indies , 2010
• Norman Arlott: Collins Field Guide Birds of North America , 2011
• Norman Arlott: Birds of North America and Greenland , 2011
• Norman Arlott: Collins Field Guide Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka , 2014
• Norman Arlott: Collins Field Guide Birds of South-East Asia , 2015
• Norman Arlott: Collins Field Guide Birds of the Philippines and Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sundas and the Moluccas , 2018
• Norman Arlott: Birds of the Greater Sundas, the Philippines, and Wallacea , 2019
• Norman Arlott: Collins Field Guide Birds of the World , 2019

literature

• John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-95149-658-9 , p. 23

Web links

• Portrait at the Illustration Art Gallery