Keith Alfred Hindwood (1904-1971) was a
Sydney
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-based
Australia
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n businessman and amateur
ornithologist
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. He joined the
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), now part of BirdLife Australia, was Australia's largest non-government, non-profit, bird conservation organisation. It was founded in 1901 to promote the study and bird conservation, conservati ...
(RAOU) in 1924, served as President 1944–1946, and was elected a
Fellow of the RAOU in 1951. He was the most prolific contributor to the RAOU journal, the ''
Emu
The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus ''Dromaius''. The emu' ...
'', with some 600 pages of contributions from his first major paper in 1926 to his death. He coauthored, with
Arnold McGill, ''The Birds of Sydney'' (1958). In 1959 he was awarded the
Australian Natural History Medallion
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.
References
* McGill, A.R. (1971). Obituary. Keith Alfred Hindwood. ''
Emu
The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus ''Dromaius''. The emu' ...
'' 71: 183–184.
* Robin, Libby. (2001). ''The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001''. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press.
Hindwood, Keith
1904 births
1971 deaths
20th-century Australian zoologists
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