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Janet Kear

Categories:

Birds

Author of:

Flamingos, The Hawaiian Goose, Man and Wildfowl

Biography

Janet Kear OBE (1933–2004) was an English ornithologist and conservationist who worked extensively on waterfowl and wrote several major works on ducks. She was the first woman to become president of the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU).
Environment: Staging