Charles Fleming (ornithologist)

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Sir Charles Fleming
KBE, FRS FRSNZ FRAOU
Born(1916-09-09)9 September 1916
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Scientific career
FieldsOrnithology

Sir Charles Alexander Fleming

palaeontologist and environmentalist. He spent the last twenty years of his life studying the evolution and systematics of New Zealand cicadas.[4][5]

Fleming was a Coastwatcher on the Cape Expedition in the Auckland Islands from 1942-1943 during World War II.[6][7] Fleming graduated from the University of Auckland in 1952 with a doctoral thesis on the geology of Whanganui.[8][9]

He was active in the

Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1973.[10] In 1974 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.[citation needed] He was also trustee of the Ngā Manu Nature Reserve.[11]

In 1988 the Royal Society of New Zealand established the Charles Fleming Award which is awarded to individuals who have achieved distinction in the protection, maintenance, management, improvement, or understanding of the environment.

In 1997,

Pleistorallus flemingi
from the mid-Pleistocene of New Zealand.

In the

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1977 New Year Honours, for services to science and conservation.[13]

Charles Fleming was married to Margaret Alison Fleming (nee Chambers) from 1941 until his death in 1987, and they had three daughters, Robin Fleming, Winifred Mary McEwen and Jean Fleming. In 2012 the Charles Fleming Retirement Village was named after Fleming. The name of the village was unveiled by two of his daughters.[11]

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  2. ^ Dell, R. K. "Fleming, Charles Alexander". Retrieved 6 June 2022.
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  7. ^ "Charles Alexander Fleming. 9 September 1916-11 September 1987". www.wikidata.org. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
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  9. ^ "NZ University Graduates 1870-1961". shadowsoftime.co.nz. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  10. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  11. ^ a b MAXWELL, JOEL (31 May 2012). "Retirement village named after naturalist". Stuff. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  12. ^ "No. 43202". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 1 January 1964. p. 40.
  13. ^ "No. 47104". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1976. p. 42.

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