# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-ferguson-lees
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:05:20.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-ferguson-lees"
name: "James Ferguson-Lees"
slug: "james-ferguson-lees"
description: "Ian James Ferguson-Lees was a British ornithologist. He became known as a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee who was responsible, with John Nelder and Max Nicholson, for publicly debunking the Hastings Rarities."
tagline: "British ornithologist and author (1929–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1929-01-08"
deathDate: "2017-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.51
  momentum:             2.884615384615384
  historical:           5.469078666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ferguson-Lees"
    title: "James Ferguson-Lees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ferguson-Lees"
    title: "James Ferguson-Lees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ferguson-Lees"
    title: "James Ferguson-Lees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ferguson-Lees"
    title: "James Ferguson-Lees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ferguson-Lees"
    title: "James Ferguson-Lees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ferguson-Lees"
    title: "James Ferguson-Lees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6133836"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump