Ian Newton (1)

Ian Newton OBE, FRS, FRSE is an ornithologist and applied scientist, and a leading expert on bird ecology and biogeography, specialising in finches, waterfowl and birds of prey. He graduated from Bristol University and gained his doctorate at the University of Oxford, working on the feeding ecology toon meer of finches. He joined the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) in 1967 and initially studied the ecology of geese on farmland, followed by the impact of pesticides on predatory birds. Among other books, he has written four previous New Naturalist volumes, on Finches (1972), Bird Migration (2010), Bird Populations (2013) and Farming and Birds (2017). toon minder