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The 'British Ornithologists' Union' ('BOU') aims to encourage the study of birds ("ornithology") in Britain, Europe and throughout the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation.
It was founded in 1858 by Professor Alfred Newton, Henry Baker Tristram and other scientists.
Its quarterly journal, ''Ibis'', has been published since 1859.
It is based at the Zoology Department of the University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
It supports the bird research throughout the world.
The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC) is part of the BOU. It maintains the official list of birds recorded in Great Britain.

Contents

List of presidents

Notable members

See also

External link

List of presidents

★ 1858-1867 : Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay (1814-1896)

★ 1867-1896 : Lord Lilford (1833-1896)

★ 1896-1913 : Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919)

★ 1913-1918 : Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay (1852-1921)

★ 1918-1921 : William Eagle Clarke (1853-1938)

★ 1921-1922 : Henry John Elwes (1846-1922)

★ 1923-1928 : Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)

★ 1928-1933 : William Lutley Sclater (1863-1944)

★ 1933-1938 : Harry Witherby (1873-1943)

★ 1938-1943 : Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882-1957)

★ 1943-1948 : Percy Roycroft Lowe (1870-1948)

★ 1948-1955 : Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson (1890-1977)

★ 1955-1960 : William Homan Thorpe (1902-1986)

★ 1960-1965 : Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897-1970)

★ 1965-1970 : Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards (1906-1997)

★ 1970-1975 : Guy Mountfort (1905-2003)

★ 1975-1979 : Sir Hugh Elliott (1913-1989)

★ 1979-1983 : Stanley Cramp (1913-1987)

★ 1983-1987 : James F. Monk

★ 1987-1990 : David Snow

★ 1990-1994 : Janet Kear (1933-2004)

★ 1994-1999 : John Croxall

★ 1999-2003 : Ian Newton

★ 2003-2007 : Christopher Perrins

★ 2003-current : Alistair Dawson (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)

Notable members

★ David Armitage Bannerman

★ Christopher Helm

★ Robert Fisher Tomes

★ Edward Adrian Wilson

See also

★ British Ornithologists' Union checklists

★ British Ornithologists' Club

External link

★ BOU website