Bryan Nelson
(1932-2015)
British ornithologist, environmental activist and academic
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Joseph Bryan Nelson MBE FRSE (14 March 1932 – 29 June 2015) was a British ornithologist, environmental activist and academic. He was a prominent authority on seabirds, publishing numerous books and articles on gannets, cormorants and other species, teaching zoology at the University of Aberdeen, and conducting pioneering ornithological research in Jordan, Christmas Island and the Galápagos Islands. Nelson was "acclaimed as the world's leading expert on the northern gannet". He also contributed to the creation of Christmas Island National Park, which helped to preserve the habitat of the endangered Abbott's booby.
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14 March 1932 Shipley, West Yorkshire, England
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29 June 2015 (aged 83) Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
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