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Ronald Lockley

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Ronald Mathias Lockley (8 November 1903 – 12 April 2000) was a Welsh ornithologist and naturalist. [1]

78 relations: Academy Awards, André Deutsch, Animal navigation, Antarctic, Atlantic puffin, Bird migration, Bird observatory, Boarding school, British Birds (magazine), British Ornithologists' Union, Cardiff, Charles Tunnicliffe, Chinchilla rabbit, Countryman (magazine), Dale Fort, Drumnadrochit, Eric Hosking, European rabbit, European storm petrel, Evans Brothers, Everyman's Library, Eyre & Spottiswoode, F&W Media International, Geoff Moon, George G. Harrap and Co., Glamorganshire Canal local nature reserve, Gomer Press, HarperCollins, Harry Forbes Witherby, Heinemann (publisher), J. M. Dent, James Fisher (naturalist), John Buxton (ornithologist), Jonathan Cape, Julian Huxley, Llandysul, Longman, Manx shearwater, Martin Lockley, Milford Haven, Natural history, Nature Conservancy (UK), New Naturalist, New Zealand, Newton Abbot, Odhams Press, Oil refinery, Orielton, Pembrokeshire, Ornithology, Paleontology, ..., Pan Books, Pavilion Books, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Pembrokeshire, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Penguin Books, Peter Scott, Polynesia, Regional Books series, Rex Collings, Richard Adams, Routledge, Seabird, Shearwater, Skokholm, Skomer, St Mellons, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, The New York Times, The Plague Dogs, The Private Life of the Gannets, Transworld Publishers, Viking Press, Watership Down, Whitchurch, Cardiff, Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, World War II. Expand index (28 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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André Deutsch

André Deutsch CBE (15 November 1917 in Budapest – 11 April 2000 in London) was a British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951.

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Animal navigation

Animal navigation is the ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments.

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Antarctic

The Antarctic (US English, UK English or and or) is a polar region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.

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Atlantic puffin

The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.

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Bird observatory

A bird observatory is a centre for the study of bird migration and bird populations.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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British Birds (magazine)

British Birds is a monthly ornithology magazine that was established in 1907.

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British Ornithologists' Union

The British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) aims to encourage the study of birds ("ornithology") in Britain, Europe and around the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Charles Tunnicliffe

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife.

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Chinchilla rabbit

Chinchilla rabbits are a group of three rabbit breeds that have been bred for a coat that resembles that of chinchillas.

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Countryman (magazine)

Countryman magazine was founded in 1927 by J. W. Robertson Scott, who edited it from his office in Idbury in rural Oxfordshire for the first 21 years.

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Dale Fort

Dale Fort is a mid-19th century coastal artillery fort at Dale Head, a rocky promontory near Dale, Pembrokeshire, to the west of Milford Haven in Wales.

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Drumnadrochit

Drumnadrochit (Scottish Gaelic, Druim na Drochaid) is a village in the Highland local government council area of Scotland, lying on the west shore of Loch Ness, at the foot of Glen Urquhart.

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Eric Hosking

Eric John Hosking OBE (2 October 1909 – 22 February 1991) was an English photographer noted for his bird photography.

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European rabbit

The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) or coney is a species of rabbit native to southwestern Europe (including Spain, Portugal and Western France) and to northwest Africa (including Morocco and Algeria).

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European storm petrel

The European storm petrel, British storm petrel or just storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a seabird in the northern storm petrel family, Hydrobatidae.

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Evans Brothers

Evans Brothers was a British publishing house that was part of the Evans Publishing Group UK.

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Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library is a series of reprinted classic literature currently published in hardback by Random House.

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Eyre & Spottiswoode

Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd was the London-based printing firm that was the King's Printer, and subsequently, after April 1929, a publisher of the same name.

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F&W Media International

F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.

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Geoff Moon

Geoffrey James Harwood "Geoff" Moon, OBE MRCVS ARPS Hon FPSNZ MACVs., (2 April 1915 – 13 March 2009) was a New Zealand naturalist an ornithologist, conservationist, veterinary surgeon and photographer.

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George G. Harrap and Co.

George G. Harrap, Ltd (officially: George G. Harrap and Company Limited, London, Bombay) is a now defunct publisher of high quality specialty books, many of them educational, such as the memoirs of Winston Churchill, or highly illustrated with line drawings, engravings or etchings, such as the much republished classic educational children's book The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone from at least 1901 into the 1980s.

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Glamorganshire Canal local nature reserve

The Glamorganshire Canal local nature reserve is a nature reserve in Coryton, Cardiff, Wales.

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Gomer Press

Gomer Press (Welsh: Gwasg Gomer) is a family printing and publishing company based in Llandysul, west Wales.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harry Forbes Witherby

Harry Forbes Witherby, MBE, FZS, MBOU (7 October 1873 – 11 December 1943) was a noted British ornithologist, author, publisher and founding editor (in 1907) of the magazine ''British Birds''.

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Heinemann (publisher)

Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services established in 1978 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a U.S. subsidiary of Heinemann UK.

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J. M. Dent

Joseph Malaby Dent (30 August 1849 – 9 May 1926) was a British book publisher who produced the Everyman's Library series.

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James Fisher (naturalist)

James Maxwell McConnell Fisher (3 September 1912 – 25 September 1970) was a British author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist and ornithologist.

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John Buxton (ornithologist)

Edward John Mawby Buxton, (16 December 1912 – 11 December 1989) was a scholar, university teacher, poet and an ornithologist who played a significant part in the development of ornithology in Britain in the years immediately after World War II.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.

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Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.

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Llandysul

Llandysul is a small town and community in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.

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Longman

Longman, commonly known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

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Manx shearwater

The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.

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Martin Lockley

Martin Lockley (born 1950) is a Welsh palaeontologist.

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Milford Haven

Milford Haven (Aberdaugleddau, meaning "mouth of the two Rivers Cleddau") is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nature Conservancy (UK)

The Nature Conservancy was a British government agency established by Royal Charter in 1949.

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New Naturalist

The New Naturalist Library (also known as The New Naturalists) is a series of books published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics relevant to the British Isles.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England, with a population of 25,556.

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Odhams Press

Odhams Press was a British publishing company.

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Oil refinery

Oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.

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Orielton, Pembrokeshire

Orielton is a historic country house near Hundleton in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Pan Books

Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.

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Pavilion Books

Pavilion Books Holdings Ltd is an English publishing company based in London.

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Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

Pembroke (Penfro) is an historic settlement and was the county town of Pembrokeshire in West Wales.

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Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.

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Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro) is a national park along the Pembrokeshire coast in west Wales.

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Pembrokeshire Coast Path

The Pembrokeshire Coast Path (Llwybr Arfordir Sir Benfro), also often called the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, is a designated National Trail in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Peter Scott

Sir Peter Markham Scott, (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman.

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Polynesia

Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Regional Books series

The Regional Books series of topographical guides to British regions was published by Robert Hale and Company during the 1950s.

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Rex Collings

Rex Collings (1925-1996) was an English publisher who specialized in books relating to Africa and children's books.

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Richard Adams

Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Shardik and The Plague Dogs.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Seabird

Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.

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Shearwater

Shearwaters are medium-sized long-winged seabirds.

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Skokholm

Skokholm and its neighbouring islands Skokholm is an island off the coast of south west Pembrokeshire in Wales, lying south of the neighbouring island of Skomer.

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Skomer

Skomer is an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales.

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St Mellons

St Mellons (Llaneirwg) is a district and suburb of southeastern Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.

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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne is a book by English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs is the third novel by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, about two dogs who escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media.

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The Private Life of the Gannets

The Private Life of the Gannets is a 1934 British short documentary film, directed by Julian Huxley, about a colony of Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) on the small rocky island of Grassholm, off the coast of Wales.

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Transworld Publishers

Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.

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Viking Press

Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.

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Watership Down

Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972.

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Whitchurch, Cardiff

Whitchurch (eglwys church + newydd new) is a suburb and community in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

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Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (WTSWW, Ymddiriedolaeth Natur De a Gorllewin Cymru) is a Wildlife Trust in south and west Wales, one of 47 such Trusts in the United Kingdom.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lockley

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