West Midland Bird Club
Personalities
Here is a list of notable West Midland Bird Club personalities, and other people who have been active in Ornithology or general Natural History, in our region.
Most of the links are to biographies on external websites, though, in time, we intend to write our own.
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- Horace G. Alexander
(1889–1989), past West Midland Bird Club president.
- Fred Archer
, Vale of Evesham countryman diarist
- Chris Baines
, author, TV presenter and co-founder of the Urban Wildlife Group (now the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country).
- Stefan Buczacki
, Wildlife gardening writer and TV and radio presenter, Stratford Upon Avon
- Felix Dennis
, publisher and woodland benefactor
- Phil Drabble
, countryman, author and TV presenter
- John Edward Gray
, Keeper of the Zoological Branch of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, born in Walsall
- Norman Hickin
, Birmingham-born entomologist, who studied the wildlife of the Wyre Forest especially.
- Edith Holden
, "Edwardian Country Lady" diarist and illustrator.
- Eliot Howard
(1873–1940), ornithologist and author, born and lived in Worcestershire.
- Rob Hume
, Editor, RSPB Birds magazine.
Exclusive: Previously unpublished extract from the draft of Rob Hume's autobiography, 'Life with Birds'.
- Cyril Hurcomb
, (1883–1975), past West Midland Bird Club president.
- Harry Berkeley James
(1846–1892), Walsall-born ornithologist, active in Chile, after whom James' Flamingo is named. (H. B. James obituary from 'The Auk')
- Graham Martin
, Professor of Avian Sensory Science at the University of Birmingham; editor of the BTO's 'Bird Study' magazine.
- Tony Norris
(1917–2005) (Norris' obituary), past West Midland Bird Club president
- Bill Oddie
, West Midland Bird Club president , TV presenter and Goodie.
- John Ray
, 17th Century naturalist, lived at Middleton Hall, Tamworth.
- Mike Rogers (1932–2006), Honorary Secretary of the British Birds Rarities Committee; founder of the Association of County Recorders and Editors.
- Robert Fisher Tomes
(1823–1904) , wrote the chapters on birds in the Victoria County Histories for Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
- Ian Wallace
, former chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee.
- Mike Warren
, Wildlife Artist. Born Wolverhamptopn
- Brett Westwood
, presenter, Radio 4's "The Living World", Stourport on Severn
- Francis Willughby
, 17th Century naturalist, lived at Middleton Hall, Tamworth.
- William Withering
, 18th century botanist and physician; member of the Lunar Society, lived at Edgbaston Hall, Birmingham.
- J. Duncan Wood (1910–2006), Assistant Editor of British Birds.
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