Jeremy John Denis Greenwood

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born 7 September 1942) is a British

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 was Director of the

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(BTO) from 1988 until he retired in September 2007. Greenwood was educated at

Royal Grammar School Worcester The Royal Grammar School Worcester (also known as RGS Worcester or RGSW) is an eleven-eighteen Mixed-sex education, mixed, Independent school (United Kingdom), independent day school and sixth form in Worcester, England, Worcester, Worcestershire ...

and

St Catherine's College, Oxford St Catherine's College (colloquially called St Catz or Catz) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford and is the newest college admitting both undergraduate and graduate students. Tracing its roots back to 1868 (although th ...

. Prior to working at the BTO, he spent 20 years as a lecturer in biological sciences at the

University of Dundee The University of Dundee; . Abbreviated as ''Dund.'' for post-nominals. is a public university, public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a University college#United Kingdom, university college in 1881 with a donation ...

. He is also president of the European Ornithologists Union. He is also an honorary Professor at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

's Centre for Ornithology.Birmingham University
/ref> He was responsible for publishing the two largest surveys on British bird populations. Since 2000, he has been a trustee of The British Birds Charitable Trust, which publishes British Birds magazineCharity Commission register entry for British Birds Charitable Trust
/ref> On retirement from the BTO, he took up an honorary professorship with the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, at the

University of St. Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...

. He was appointed a

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(CBE) in the

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, "for services to conservation". In 2020, his book written with James Parry, about the ornithologist and photographer Emma Turner, was published.

Bibliography

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The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds ''The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds - their distribution and abundance'' () is an ornithological atlas published for the European Bird Census Council by T & A D Poyser in 1997. Its editors were Ward J. M. Hagemeijer and Michael J. Blai ...

'', T & A D Poyser, 1997 (contributor) *

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