Emeritus Professor Harry Frederick Recher RZS (NSW) AM (born 27 March 1938, New York City) is an Australian ecologist,

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and advocate for conservation. Recher grew up, in the

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. He studied at the State University of New York College of Forestry and received his B.S. in 1959 from

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. He received a Ph.D. from

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in 1964, and then did an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the

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and

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. He moved to Australia in 1967. From 1968 he worked for 20 years at the Australian Museum as a research scientist, focussing on conservation issues and the biology of forest and woodland birds. In 1988 he moved to the

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. In 1996 he became the Foundation Professor in Environmental Management at Edith Cowan University in

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. More recently he has been editor of the journal ''

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''. In 1994 he was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union's D.L. Serventy Medal for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region.French, Kris (1994). D.L. Serventy Medal 1994: Citation. Harry Frederick Recher. ''Emu'' 94: 223. As well as numerous published scientific papers, he has authored and edited several books.

References

*Robin, Libby. (2001). ''The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001''. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. Australian ornithologists Syracuse University alumni Edith Cowan University faculty Stanford University alumni Living people State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry alumni 1938 births {{Australia-ornithologist-stub