Rob Hume

Robert "Rob" Arthur Hume (born June 15, 1950 in Burntwood , Lichfield , Staffordshire ) is a British ornithologist and author who worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for a long time .

Life

In 1971 Hume graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wales at Swansea in geography . From 1974 to 1975 he worked for the avifaunistic commission of the Gower Ornithological Society. He was also a member of the avifaunistic commission of the West Midland Bird Club and deputy editor of the annual reports of this association during the 1970s. From 1978 to 1983 he was head of the development department at RSPB. From 1983 to 1989 he was editor-in-chief of Bird Life magazine , the press organ of the RSPB's Young Ornithologists' Club (YOC). From 1989 to 2009 he was editor-in-chief of the RSBP magazine Birds . From 1987 to 1997 he was a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC); from 1993 to 1997 its chairman. Hume published over 35 books, some of which are also available in German and French translations. In 2005 his autobiography Live with Birds - The Memoirs of a Naturalist was published .

Works (selection)

• A Birdwatcher's Miscellany , Blandford Press, 1984 ISBN 0-7137-1385-2
• A Year of Bird Life , RSPB, 1985 ISBN 0-903138-19-0
• Birds of Britain , AA Publishing, 1988 ISBN 0-7513-1234-7
• Birds by Character - Britain & Europe: A Fieldguide to Jizz , Macmillan Publishers, 1990 ISBN 0-333-49053-3
• Owls of the world Dragon's World, Limpsfield 1991, ISBN 1-85028-159-9
• Focus on Birdwatching , Heinemann, 1992 ISBN 0-600-57366-4
• Discovering Birds , A & C Black, 1993 (illustrated by Ian Wallace ) ISBN 0-903138-53-0 (German: Discovering and determining birds: the birds of Europe in their habitats , Bertelsmann, 1994, ISBN 3-570-12016-3 , translated by Christoph Arndt)
• The Common Tern , Hamlyn, 1993 (illustrated by Norman Arlott ) ISBN 0-540-01266-1
• Seabirds (Hamlyn Bird Behavior Guides), Hamlyn, 1993 (illustrated by Bruce Pearson ) ISBN 0-600-57951-4
• Collins Gem Photoguide Birdwatching , Collins, 1995, ISBN 0-00-470756-7
• The Shell Easy Bird Guide , (illustrated by Peter Hayman ), Macmillan Publishers, 1997, ISBN 0-333-65420-X
  • New edition 2002 ISBN 0-333-65420-X
• The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds , T & AD Poyser, 1997 ISBN 0-85661-091-7 (Co-Author, Editors: Ward JM Hagemeijer and Michael J. Blair)
• Birds: An Artists View , Courage Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-7624-0376-9
• Macmillan Bird Guide , Macmillan, 1998 ISBN 0-333-76669-5
• RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe , Dorling Kindersley, 2002 ISBN 1-4053-0753-6
• RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe , Dorling Kindersley, 2002, ISBN 0-7513-7354-0
  • RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe (revised and expanded new edition), Dorling Kindersley, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4053-2228-7
• RSPB Birdwatching , Dorling Kindersley, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4053-1352-0
• English Birds and Green Places: Selected Writings: A Selection from the Writings of WH Hudson (Preface), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004, ISBN 0-575-07207-5
• Rob Hume, Guilhem Lesaffre and Marc Duquet, 2004, Oiseaux de France et d'Europe , Larousse ISBN 2-03-560311-0
• Life With Birds (Autobiography), David & Charles', 2005, ISBN 0-7153-2181-1
• Birds of Prey of Britain & Europe , 2006, ISBN 1-84533-184-2

literature

• John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9514965-8-9 , p. 196

Web links

• Official profile on LinkedIn