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Janet Kear

English ornithologist (1933-2004) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 71

Janet Kear 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).

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Awards

Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union1998

Officer of the Order of the British Empire1993

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United Kingdom

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