Arnold Whitworth Boyd MC, MA, FZS,

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, MBOU (20 January 1885 – 16 October 1959) was an

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

and naturalist from

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, England. Boyd was born on 20 January 1885. He was a long-time contributor to ''

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'' 's "

Country Diary ''Country Diary'' is a daily natural history column in the English newspaper ''The Guardian'', first published in November 1906. It is also now freely available on the newspaper's website. Past and present contributors include Pete Bowler, Arnol ...

" column, taking over a slot from his friend

Thomas Coward Thomas Alfred Coward (8 January 1867 – 29 January 1933), was an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history, local history and Cheshire. Life He was born at 8 Higher Downs, Bowdon, Cheshire ( ...

in 1933, on the latter's death. In 1950, he revised Coward's ''The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs'' for a new edition. Boyd was uncle to James Fisher, who also became a leading ornithologist and natural history writer and broadcaster. Following Fisher's death, many of Boyd's diaries, other papers and related material were acquired by

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. He made occasional radio appearances, such as a 1936 episode of ''My Week-End out of Doors'' on 'Cheshire Meres', and a 1957 ''

Birds In Britain ''Birds In Britain'' was a BBC Radio series, broadcast from 1951 to 1963 on the Home Service, about wild birds. Its lead presenter was James Fisher. It was created as an offshoot from a programme called ''The Naturalist'', in order to avoid ov ...

'' episode on

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s, edited and introduced by his nephew James and produced by

Winwood Reade William Winwood Reade (26 December 1838 – 24 April 1875) was a British historian, explorer, novelist and philosopher. His two best-known books, the universal history ''The Martyrdom of Man'' (1872) and the novel ''The Outcast'' (1875), were i ...

. Boyd died in Northwich, Cheshire on 16 October 1959.

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