John Warham

John Warham

Dr John Warham (born 11 October 1919) is an Australian and New Zealand photographer and ornithologist notable for his research on seabirds, especially petrels.

Warham was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, in England, and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School at Retford, Nottinghamshire. From 1940 he served in the British Army during the second world war in Europe, being demobilised in 1946. He moved to Australia from England in 1953. Following much photography and study of Australian birds, and the publication of illustrated papers on their biology in the "Emu", he returned to England to take a doctorate at the University of Durham.

Warham then moved to Christchurch, New Zealand where he was a reader in zoology at the University of Canterbury until 1987. He led several biological expeditions to New Zealand's sub-antarctic islands.

He joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1963 and was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1992. Also in 1992, he was awarded the RAOU's D.L. Serventy Medal, which recognises excellence in published work on birds in the Australasian region. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. In 2001 he was awarded an MNZM for services to ornithology in the New Zealand Honours List.

Bibliography

As well as numerous published scientific papers, books he has authored or coauthored include:
* 1951 - "Bird-Watcher's Delight". Country Life: London.
* 1956 - "The Technique of Bird Photography". Focal Press: London. (With further editions in 1966, 1976 and 1983).
* 1966 - "The technique of Wildlife Cinematography". Focal Press: London.
* 1971 - "The Handbook of Australian Sea-Birds". Reed: Sydney. (With Dominic and Vincent Serventy).
* 1990 - "The Petrels. Their Ecology and Breeding Systems". Academic Press: London.
* 1996 - "The Behaviour, Population Biology and Physiology of the Petrels". Academic Press: London.

References

* Robin, Libby. (2001). "The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001". Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3
* Warham, John. (2007). John Warham. His life in photographs. [http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/people/warham/John%20Warham%20Biography%20updated%20sept07.pdf] PDF downloaded 4 November 2007
* Wooller, Ron. (1992). D.L. Serventy Medal: Citation. John Warham. "Emu" 92: 122.


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