David Armitage Bannerman

David Armitage Bannerman
Born	1886
Died	6 April 1979 (aged 92–93)
Occupation	Ornithologist
Nationality	British
Genres	Non-fiction
Subjects	Ornithology

David Armitage Bannerman OBE, MA, SD (Cantab), Hon. LL.D. (Glasgow), FRSE, FZS^[1] (1886 – 6 April 1979) was a British ornithologist.

Biography

After graduating from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1909, Bannerman travelled extensively in Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Atlantic Islands.^[2]

Rejected on health grounds by the military, Bannerman served with the Red Cross for four years in France during World War I, earning the Mons Star.^[2] He was then employed, part time, at the Natural History Museum,^[3] until his retirement in 1951, having twice declined the directorship of the British Museum.^[2] He was chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1932 to 1935, having edited their Bulletin from 1914–1915 and was Vice President of the British Ornithologists Union and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

He also wrote for Ibis.

Bibliography

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• The Birds of Tropical West Africa (illustrated by George Edward Lodge; 8 vols) 1930-1951
• The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa (2 vols) 1953
• Larger Birds of West Africa, Penguin (London) 1958
• Birds of Cyprus (with W. Mary Bannerman), Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1958
• The Birds of the British Isles (illustrated by Lodge) Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh (12 vols) 1953-1963
  • Vol. 1: Corvidae, Sturnidae, Oriolidae, Fringillidae, 1953
  • Vol. 2: Alaudidae, Certhidae, Paridae, Vireonidae etc, 1953
  • Vol. 3: Sylviidae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Cinclidae, Prunellidae, Hirundinidae, 1954
  • Vol. 4: Apodidae, Coraciidae, Caprimulgidae, Alcedinidae, Meropidae, Picidae, Upupidae, Cuculidae, Strigidae, 1955
  • Vol. 5: Birds of Prey, 1956
  • Vol. 6: Ciconiidae, Ardeidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae (Part), 1957
  • Vol. 7: Anatidae (Conclusion), 1958
  • Vol. 8: Phalacrocoracidae, Diomedeidae, Sulidae, Podicipedidae, Fregatidae, Gaviidae, Procellariidae, Columbidae, Pteroclididae, 1959
  • Vol. 9: Scolopacidae (Part), 1961
  • Vol. 10: Scolopacidae (Conclusion), Charadriidae, Recurvirostridae, Haematopodidae, 1961
  • Vol. 11: Glareolidae, Otdidae, Burhinidae, Gruidae, Laridae, 1962
  • Vol. 12: Stercorariidae, Alcidae, Rallidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, 1963
• The Birds of the Atlantic Islands (with W. Mary Bannerman, illustrated by D. M. Reid-Henry) Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh (4 vols) 1963-1968 ISBN 9780050018
  • Vol. 1: A History of the Birds of the Canary Islands and the Salvages, 1963
  • Vol. 2: A History of the Birds of Madeira, the Desertas, and Porto Santo Islands, 1965
  • Vol. 3: A History of the Birds of the Azores, 1966
  • Vol. 4: A History of the Birds of the Cape Verde Islands, 1968
• Handbook of the Birds of Cyprus and Migrants of the Middle East (with W. Mary Bannerman) Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1971 ISBN 9780050024454
• Birds of the Maltese Archipelago (with Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero) Museums Department, Valletta 1976
• The Birds of the Balearics' (with W. Mary Bannerman, illustrated by Donald Watson) Croom Helm/Tanager Books 1983 ISBN 9780880720229

Contributions

• George Lodge - Artist Naturalist John Savory (Ed.), Croom Helm, 1986 ISBN 0-7099-3366-5
  • The chapter Lodge the Man, a Biography

Notable articles

• Exhibition and description of a new subspecies of oystercatcher (Haematopus niger meade-waldoi) from the Canary Islands. Bull. B. O. C. 31: 33-34. (1913)

• A probable sight record of a Canarian black oystercatcher. Ibis 111: 257. (1969)

References

1. ^ Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
2. ^ ^{a b c} Obituary, RSPB Birds magazine, Vol 7 No 7, November–December 1979, pp8-9
3. ^ Savory

• Watson, D (1980). "Obituary: David Armitage Bannerman (1886-1979)". British Birds 73: 26–29. ISSN 0007-0335. 

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Date of death	6 April 1979
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