James Fisher (naturalist)
James Maxwell McConnell Fisher ( born September 3, 1912 in Clifton, Bristol, † September 25, 1970 in Hendon, London Borough of Barnet ) was a British ornithologist, naturalist, author, editor and broadcaster, over 1000 radio and television reports about natural history made themes.
Life and work
Fischer was the eldest son of Kenneth Fisher ( also an ornithologist and headmaster of Oundle School from 1922 to 1945 ). His maternal uncle was the naturalist Arnold Boyd from Cheshire. After studying at Eton College, he studied medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, but then switched to zoology tray. In 1933 he took part in the Spitsbergen Expedition of the University of Oxford as an ornithologist. After his time at university he worked as an assistant curator at the London Zoo. During the Second World War he operated for the Department of Agriculture studies of rooks. After the war he was a key member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB ) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN ) and member of the National Parks Commission and Vice Chairman of the Countryside Commission.
On September 18, 1955 Fisher took part in the British occupation of the rocky island of Rockall in the North Atlantic as a geologist.
In addition to numerous own books Fisher was involved together with Julian Huxley, Dudley Stamp and Eric Hosking, as the publisher of the book series New Naturalist. In the 1950s he was an ornithologist in the regular radio program Nature Parliament as part of the service of the BBC Children's Hour. In 1966 he was awarded the Bernard Tucker Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology.
Fisher was the literary critic Margery Fisher (nee Turner, 1913-1992 ) married, with whom he jointly wrote a biography about the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. From this marriage six children were born. In September 1970, he died in a car accident.