EVENING TALKS: Prof.Ian Newton / TBC

Join us for the first of the festival talks from Prof. Ian Newton and another fantastic speaker TBC.

Until he retired, Ian Newton worked as an ornithologist involved in research relevant to conservation. He began his ornithological career at the University of Oxford, studying seed-eating birds, and then moved to work for the Natural Environment Research Council, studying first waterfowl and then birds-of-prey, particularly the impacts of DDT and other pesticides. For many years, he was head of pesticide and pollution research at Monks Wood Research Station near Huntingdon. He is especially interested in the factors that limit bird populations, including different forms of land-use, and has made detailed studies of various raptors. He has also been involved in several raptor reintroduction programmes in Britain and North America. Apart from his research, he has served as Chairman of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the British Trust for Ornithology and The Peregrine Fund in the USA. In addition, he is a past President of the British Ecological Society and of the British Ornithologists’ Union, and a Fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union. He has written more than 300 papers in the scientific literature, and ten books, including Uplands and birds, reflecting his interests in both birds and land-use.

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