Dominic Serventy
Dominic Serventy | |
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| President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union | |
| In office 1947–1949 | |
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| Born | Dominic Louis Serventy 28 March 1904 Brown Hill, Western Australia |
| Died | 8 August 1988 (aged 84) |
| Occupation | Ornithologist, author |
Dominic Louis Serventy (28 March 1904 – 8 August 1988) was a
Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expeditions
during the 1960s, also participating in the third (1965) expedition.
Early life
He was born at
Cambridge University
.
Career
He co-authored (with
naturalist) of The Handbook of Australian Sea-birds
(1971).
Legacy
He is commemorated by the RAOU's
D.L. Serventy Medal which is awarded annually for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region.[1]
Dominic Serventy is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Australian lizard, Ctenotus serventyi.[2] Dominic and Vincent Serventy are commemorated in the species' epithet of the extinct cormorant Microcarbo serventyorum, described by Gerard Frederick van Tets in 1994.
Honours
- 1952 - elected a Fellow of the RAOU
- 1956 - awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion
- 1970 - awarded the Tasmanian Royal Society Medal
- 1972 - appointed Ridder (Knight) in the Most Excellent Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
Notes
- Western Australian Naturalist, 6/1/1989, p. 201-225; and Western Australian bird notes, Nov. 1988, p. 5,
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Serventy", p. 241).
References
- Kloot, Tess. (1986). "A Regular Correspondence … On Matters Ornithological". La Trobe Journal 38: 42–47.[1] Accessed 10 September 2007
- 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
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