Ian Newton

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English ornithologist

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Ian Newton (born 17 January 1940) is an English ornithologist.

Education and early life

Newton was born and raised in north Derbyshire and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Bristol. He received his D.Phil. in 1964 and D.Sc. in 1982 from the University of Oxford, and has studied a wide range of bird species.

Career and research

He has been interested in birds since his childhood. As a teenager he became particularly fascinated by finches and undertook doctoral and post-doctoral studies on them. Newton conducted a 27-year study of a Eurasian sparrowhawk population nesting in southern Scotland, which resulted in what many consider to be the most detailed and longest-running study of any population of birds of prey.

Before retirement, he was Senior Ornithologist at the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council. He has also been head of the Avian Biology Section at the Monks Wood Research Station (1989–2000), Chairman of the Board of The Peregrine Fund, Chairman of the Council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Chairman of Saving India's Vultures from Extinction, and visiting professor of ornithology at the University of Oxford. Newton has also held the positions of President of the British Ornithologists' Union and the British Ecological Society (1994–1995).

Partial bibliography

  • Finches (Collins New Naturalist Library) (1972)
  • Population Ecology of Raptors (1979) T & A.D. Poyser.
  • The Sparrowhawk (1986) T & A.D. Poyser.
  • Population Limitation in Birds (1998)
  • The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds (2003)
  • The Migration Ecology of Birds (2008 1st ed.; 2024 2nd ed.)
  • Bird Migration (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2010) (HB), (PB)
  • Bird Populations (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2013)
  • Farming and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2017)
  • Uplands and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2020)

Honours and awards

References

References

  1. [http://www.newnaturalists.com/authors/pages/ian-newton.aspx Ian Newton. Collins] {{Webarchive. link. (2013-12-20 . The New Naturalists Online. Retrieved 3 December 2009)
  2. "Newton, Prof. Ian, (born 17 Jan. 1940)".
  3. Newton, Ian (1986) The Sparrowhawk. T & A.D. Poyser Ltd. Calton. {{ISBN. 0-85661-041-0
  4. Newton, I. (2009) Introduction. ''In'' R.T. Watson, M. Fuller, M. Pokras, and W.G. Hunt (Eds.). [http://www.peregrinefund.org/lead_conference/PDF/0091%20Newton.pdf Ingestion of Lead from Spent Ammunition: Implications for Wildlife and Humans]. [[The Peregrine Fund]], Boise, Idaho, USA. DOI 10.4080/ilsa.2009.0091
  5. Bowden, Christopher GR. (2017-08-31). "The creation of the SAVE consortium – Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction: a possible model for Africa?". Ostrich.
  6. [http://www.buteobooks.com/archives/newton.html Ian Newton. The Migration Ecology of Birds] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-01-20 . Buteo Books. Retrieved 3 December 2009)
  7. link. (20 July 2011 . Researcher Results. [[The Peregrine Fund]]. Retrieved 3 December 2009)
  8. "RSE Fellows". Royal Society of Edinburgh.
  9. "Winners of our President's Medal".

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