Keith Alfred Hindwood
Keith Alfred Hindwood ( born July 3, 1904 in Willoughby, Sydney, New South Wales, † 18 March in Sydney, New South Wales, 1971) was an Australian ornithologist and businessman.
Life and work
Keith Alfred Hindwood was the younger of two sons and the third of four children of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Joseph and Ida Ellen Hindwood, née Phillips. His father was a stationer. Up to the age of 14 Hindwood went to the North Sydney Public School. In 1928 he established a stationery wholesaler of paper, office and printing needs. In the 1950s, he converted the business into a company and led it until his retirement in 1970., 1936, he married Marjorie Goddard in Darlinghurst, a stenographer.
In 1924, at the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Hindwood Union, for whose journal Emu, he wrote 185 articles. His first contribution, published in 1926, was a detailed study of the stone Skitterer ( Origma solitaria ). Between 1928 and 1937, 52 were published by Hindwoods nature photos in the Sydney Mail. From 1931 until 1932 he wrote under the pseudonym Oriole column Nature Notes and Studies in the daily newspaper The Country. He made regular excursions to several bird habitats around Sydney to determine the restricted area of distribution of the Steinhuschers in New South Wales.
It has always interested in ornithological history, belonged to Hindwood the Royal Australian Historical Society. His honeymoon on Lord Howe Island kindled in him the ambition to explore the ornithological history of the island. The results of this study, in which he detailed the extinction of various endemic bird species described, were published in 1940 under the title The Birds of Lord Howe Iceland in the Journal Emu. He later wrote about the pioneering Australian scientist and the artist of the colonial era, including George Raper. His books include The waders of Sydney ( with Ernest Sydney Hoskin, 1955), The Birds of Sydney ( with Arnold Robert McGill, 1958), Australian Birds in Colour (1966 ) and A Portfolio of Australian Birds ( with illustrations by William Thomas Cooper, 1968). 1961 and 1962 he accompanied the zoologist Kent Keith and Dominic Louis Serventy on board the research vessel HMAS Gascoyne into the Coral Sea. Your research on the avifauna of this region were published in 1963 by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation under the title Birds of the South -west Coral Sea.
Honors and Memberships
Hindwood was honorary ornithologist and research associate at the Australian Museum. In 1931 he was elected to a lifelong member of the Gould League of Bird Lovers of New South Wales. In 1938 he became a corresponding member of the American Ornithologists ' Union. In 1939 he became president in 1950 and Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. From 1944 to 1946, he was named president and elected in 1951 a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union. In 1959 he was awarded the Medal of the Royal Australian Historical Society.