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) may elect somebody to the position of

Fellow A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher education ...

, the highest grade of membership, for service to the RAOU and to

ornithology 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 ...

. Fellows of the RAOU are entitled to use the letters FRAOU after their name. There is a limit to the number of Fellows that may exist at any time and new Fellows are generally only elected when an existing one dies. In the following list those elected to the similar positions of Corresponding Members or Corresponding Fellows (CM) are included, although this does not appear to have occurred since the 1930s. Some past and present Fellows, following the years of their election, are: *1939 -

Wilfred Backhouse Alexander Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander (4 February 1885 – 18 December 1965) was an England, English ornithologist and entomologist. He was a brother of Horace Alexander and Christopher James Alexander. Alexander was born at Croydon in Surrey, England in ...

(1885-1965) *1939 -

Gregory Macalister Mathews Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England. Life He was born in Biamble in New South Wales the son of Robert H. M ...

CBE (1876-1949) *1939 -

Ernst Walter Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

(CM) (USA) (1904-2005) *1939 -

Frank Alexander Wetmore Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 – December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Early life and education The son of a Country Physician, Frank Al ...

(CM) (USA) (1886-1978) *1939 -

Robert Cushman Murphy The whaling ship, ''Daisy'', which Murphy traveled on to the Antarctic Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numer ...

(CM) (USA) (1887-1973) *1939 - Percy Roycroft Lowe (CM) (UK) (1870-1948) *1941 - Archibald George Campbell (1880-1954) *1941 -

Alexander Hugh Chisholm Alexander Hugh Chisholm Order of the British Empire, OBE Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, FRZS (28 March 1890 — 10 July 1977) also known as Alec Chisholm, was a noted Australian naturalist, journalist, editing, newspaper editor, aut ...

OBE (1890-1977) *1949 - Sir

Charles Frederic Belcher Sir Charles Frederic Belcher OBE (11 July 1876 – 7 February 1970) was an Australian lawyer, author, British colonial jurist, and amateur ornithologist. Biography Born in Geelong, Victoria, C. F. Belcher was a son of G. F. Belcher, a former m ...

OBE (1876-1970) *1951 -

Keith Alfred Hindwood Keith Alfred Hindwood (1904-1971) was a Sydney-based Australian businessman and amateur ornithologist. He joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), now part of BirdLife Australi ...

(1904-1971) *1951 -

Dominic Louis Serventy Dominic Louis Serventy (28 March 1904 – 8 August 1988) was a Perth -based Western Australian ornithologist. He was president of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) 1947–1949. He assisted with the initial organisation of the B ...

(1904-1988) *1958 -

Alan John (Jock) Marshall Alan John "Jock" Marshall (17 February 1911 – 20 July 1967) was an Australian writer, academic and ornithologist. Marshall was born in Redfern, New South Wales. Despite having lost an arm in a shooting accident at the age of sixteen, he w ...

(1911-1967) *1963 - Arnold Robert McGill OAM (1905-1988) *1965 - James Allen Keast (1922-2009) *1970 - Angus Hargreaves Robinson (1907-1973) *1970 -

Wilson Roy Wheeler Wilson Roy Wheeler Order of the British Empire, MBE Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Fellows, FRAOU (1905–1988), commonly referred to as W. Roy Wheeler, was an Australian postman and professional ornithologist. He was an active bird band ...

MBE (1905-1988) *1973 -

Herbert Thomas Condon Herbert Thomas Condon (27 February 1912 – 12 January 1978) was an Australian museum curator and ornithologist. He was born in Melbourne and attended the University of Adelaide. In 1929, Condon joined the scientific staff of the South Australi ...

(1912-1978) *1973 - Sir

Robert Falla Sir Robert Alexander Falla (21 July 1901 – 23 February 1979) was a New Zealand museum administrator and ornithologist. Early life Falla was born in Palmerston North in 1901 to George Falla and his wife, Elizabeth Kirk. As his father was wor ...

CMG, KBE (1901-1979) *1974 - Sir Charles Alexander Fleming OBE, KBE (1916-1987) *1974 -

Harold James Frith Harold James Frith AO (16 April 192128 June 1982) was an Australian administrator and ornithologist. He was born at Kyogle, New South Wales and studied Agricultural Science at Sydney University. Harry Frith (as he was usually known) first joine ...

AO, FAA, FTSE (1921-1982) *1975 - Stephen Marchant AM (1912-1903) *1980 - Stephen John James Frank Davies *1980 - Allan Reginald McEvey (1919-1996) *1981 - Pauline Reilly OAM (1918-2011) *1983 - Selwyn George (Bill) Lane (1922-2000) *1989 - Ian Cecil Robert Rowley (1926-2009) *1989 - Henry Norman Burgess Wettenhall AM (1915-2000) *1990 - Brian Douglas Bell (1930-2016) *1991 - Norman Chaffer OAM (1899-1992) *1992 - John Warham (1919-2010) *1993 - Margaret Alison Cameron AM (1937- ) *1998 - Clive Dudley Thomas Minton AM (1934- ) *2003 - Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman *2004 - Stuart Leslie AM ( -2005)

References

*Robin, Libby. (2001). ‘’The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001’’. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. {{ISBN, 0-522-84987-3 Australian ornithologists