Brian Douglas Bell is a New Zealand

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 environmental consultant and ornithologist. He worked for the New Zealand Wildlife Service

New Zealand Wildlife Service

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 1957-1987 on the management and conservation of threatened species

Threatened species

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 and was awarded the Queens Service Medal (QSM) in 1984. He is a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

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 (RAOU), and was elected a Fellow of the RAOU

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 in 1990. He was President of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand

Ornithological Society of New Zealand

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(OSNZ) 1975-1980 and 1989-1995. Awarded the OSNZ Falla Memorial Award in 1987 and elected a Fellow of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand in 1998.