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David Pearson (1941–2017) was a giant of East African ornithology. He held academic posts at Makere University College in Kampala and Nairobi University, and pioneered ringing and migration studies of waders and passerines in the region, chairing the East African Records Committee for 14 years. He published many papers and articles, and co-authored Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania with Dale Zimmerman and Don Turner, and later Reed and Bush Warblers (2010) with Peter Kennerley.