Jeremy John Denis Greenwood CBE (born 7 September 1942) is a British ornithologist and was Director of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) from 1988 [1] until he retired in September 2007.[2]

Jeremy Greenwood
OccupationOrnithologist Edit this on Wikidata
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Awards
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2007) Edit this on Wikidata

Greenwood was educated at Royal Grammar School Worcester[citation needed] and St Catherine's College, Oxford[citation needed].

Prior to working at the BTO, he spent 20 years as a lecturer in biological sciences at the University of Dundee.[3] He is also president of the European Ornithologists Union. He is also an honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Ornithology.[4] He was responsible for publishing the two largest surveys on British bird populations[citation needed].

Since 2000, he has been a trustee of The British Birds Charitable Trust, which publishes British Birds magazine[5] On retirement from the BTO, he took up an honorary professorship with the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, at the University of St. Andrews.[3]

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours, "for services to conservation".[6]

In 2020, his book written with James Parry, about the ornithologist and photographer Emma Turner, was published.

Bibliography

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  • The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds, T & A D Poyser, 1997 ISBN 0-85661-091-7 (contributor)
  • Parry, James; Greenwood, Jeremy (2020). Emma Turner : a life looking at birds. Norwich: Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society. ISBN 978-1-9162537-1-1.

References

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  1. ^ "New Director for National Bird Charity". 9 March 2007. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.
  2. ^ British Birds. 100 (4): 257. April 2007. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ a b "(Editorial footnote to) The Origin of the Birdwatching Term "Jizz"". British Birds. 111 (5): 292–294. May 2018.
  4. ^ Birmingham University
  5. ^ Charity Commission register entry for British Birds Charitable Trust
  6. ^ "No. 58557". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2007. p. 7.