Jim Flegg
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Dr Jim Flegg OBE
is a British
ornithologist
and writer
on bird
-related matters. He is also a former director of the British Trust for Ornithology
. He joined the Rochester and District Natural History Society as a junior member. As an ornithologist, he became well-known, and became president of Kent Ornithological Society in 1977. He was a national household name because of his role as a presenter on the Coastal Ways and Country Ways television programmes.
He is a bird ringer
and has ringed over 30,000 birds.
Among the books Dr Flegg has authored are the Photographic Field Guide: Birds of Australia and a number of books designed to interest children in living things from an early age.
Order of the British Empire
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is a British
United Kingdom
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ornithologist
Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...
and writer
Writer
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on bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
-related matters. He is also a former director of the British Trust for Ornithology
British Trust for Ornithology
The British Trust for Ornithology is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles.-Activities:The BTO carries out research into the lives of birds, chiefly by conducting population and breeding surveys and by bird ringing, largely carried out by a large number of...
. He joined the Rochester and District Natural History Society as a junior member. As an ornithologist, he became well-known, and became president of Kent Ornithological Society in 1977. He was a national household name because of his role as a presenter on the Coastal Ways and Country Ways television programmes.
He is a bird ringer
Bird ringing
Bird ringing or bird banding is a technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings, so that various aspects of the bird's life can be studied by the ability to re-find the same individual later...
and has ringed over 30,000 birds.
Among the books Dr Flegg has authored are the Photographic Field Guide: Birds of Australia and a number of books designed to interest children in living things from an early age.