Ian James Mason is an Australian

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

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

who is Senior Collection Manager for the

Australian National Wildlife Collection The Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) is a collection of almost 200,000 zoological specimens, including skeletons, skins, spirit specimens, birds’ eggs, frozen tissue samples and a wildlife sound library, mainly of vertebrate anima ...

. He is an authority on

oology Oology (or oölogy) is a branch of ornithology studying bird eggs, nests and breeding behaviour. The word is derived from the Greek ''oion'', meaning egg. Oology can also refer to the hobby of collecting wild birds' eggs, sometimes called egg c ...

Publications

As well as writing numerous scientific papers, Mason has collaborated on several books about birds. * 1980 – ''Nocturnal Birds of Australia''. (With

Richard Schodde Richard Schodde, OAM (born 23 September 1936) is an Australian botanist and ornithologist. Schodde studied at the University of Adelaide, where he received a BSc (Hons) in 1960 and a PhD in 1970. During the 1960s he was a botanist with the C ...

. Illustrations by Jeremy Boot). Lansdowne Editions: Melbourne. ( Whitley Medal 1981). * 1997 – ''Zoological Catalogue of Australia: Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae) v. 37. 2''. (With Richard Schodde). CSIRO Publishing. * 1998 – ''CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status''. (With Richard Schodde, M. Stanger, M Clayton, and J. Wombey). CSIRO Publishing. * 1999 – ''The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines. A taxonomic and zoogeographic atlas of the biodiversity of birds of Australia and its territories''. (With Richard Schodde). CSIRO Publishing.

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