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Emma Louisa Turner FLS (1866 13 August 1940〔England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1940. "TURNER Emma Louisa of 13 Storeys Way Cambridge spinster died 13 August 1940 Probate Llandudno 18 November to Enid Mary Fowler (wife of John Britton Fowler) and Geoffrey Cater Turner paymaster-lieutenant R.N. Effects £3031 0s. 10d."〕) was an ornithologist and pioneering bird photographer whose 1911 picture of a nestling bittern in Norfolk was the first evidence of their return to the United Kingdom as a breeding bird after local extinction since the late 1800s. She was described as being " …small in stature but very wiry, quite capable with a punt or rowing boat".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emma Turner of Hickling Broad Norfolk )〕 She took up photography after meeting Richard Kearton in 1900.〔〔 For 20 years, she lived and worked for part of each year〔 (including some winters〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A double century for Bitterns )〕) at Hickling Broad in Norfolk,〔 chiefly on a houseboat of her own design, which she named ''Water Rail'' after the first photograph she took in the Broads, of a water rail.〔 She also had a hut on a small island in the south-east of Hickling Broad,〔 which became known as Turner's Island〔〔 (). She became the first "watcher" (warden) on the National Trust's Scolt Head.〔 Her bittern picture resulted in her being awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.〔 She was one of the first ten women fellows of the Linnaean Society〔 and the first female honorary member of the British Ornithologists' Union.〔 Though not a graduate, she was also an honorary member of the British Federation of University Women.〔 Her book, ''Broadland Birds'', was published in 1924 and formed the basis of a radio programme about her life, ''Emma Turner; a life in the reeds'', broadcast by the BBC in 2012,〔 produced by Sarah Blunt and with sound recordings by Chris Watson.〔 She was also a keen gardener,〔 at her homes in Girton, Cambridgeshire〔 and Cambridge,〔 and kept Terriers, which she trained to flush birds so that she could count them.〔 She lost her sight two years before her death.〔 ==Bibliography== * * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emma Turner (photographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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