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D. Ian M. Wallace (known as Ian Wallace or D.I.M. Wallace,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Top 100 iPad Apps: Birds of Britain and Ireland (Pro Edition) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beguiled by Birds - Ian Wallace on British Birdwatching )〕 or by his initials DIMW; born before 1935) is a British birder, author and artist. He lives in Staffordshire. D.I.M. Wallace was the second chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee〔Dean, Alan R. (2007) The British Birds Rarities Committee: a review of its history, publications and procedures ''British Birds'' 100(3): 149–176〕 and was a contributing author to The Birds of the Western Palearctic. In 1963, Wallace was among a party of birders, led by Guy Mountfort and including Julian Huxley,〔 George Shannon〔 and, James Ferguson-Lees,〔 which made the first ornithological expedition to Azraq in Jordan.〔 The expedition's recommendations eventually led to the creation of the Azraq Wetland Reserve and other protected areas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Protected Areas )〕 Papers from the expedition are in the United Kingdom's National Archives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Access to Archives, ref EMN/Box 5 )〕 He identified at least four species previously unknown in Nigeria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Bulletin of the Nigerian Ornithological Society'', Volume 6, 1969 )〕 He is the Honorary Life President of Flamborough Ornithological Group since 2000), and of Flamborough Bird Observatory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honorary Life President: )〕 Wallace has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's ''Saving Species'', discussing his October 1960 observations of the visible migration of birds over London, on their 50th anniversary. He has been described as "one of the very top ornithologists in the UK", "one of the great names of British bird-watching",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Bird-watching before Birding" by Ian Wallace )〕 by the BBC as "a pioneer of ornithology (the United Kingdom )",〔 and by Mark Cocker as both "one of the godfathers of modern birding"〔 and "the grand old man of birds". ==Bibliography== *''Discover Birds'', Deutsch (1979), ISBN 0-233-97100-9 *''Birdwatching In The Seventies'', Macmillan (1981), ISBN 0-333-30026-2 *''Watching birds'' (illustrated by Alan Harris, Ian Jackson), Usborne (1982), ISBN 0-86020-655-6 *''Birds of Prey of Britain and Europe'' (paintings by Ian Willis), Oxford University Press (1983). ISBN 0-19-217729-X *''Beguiled by Birds'', Christopher Helm (2004), ISBN 0-7136-6535-1 ((publishers' page )) 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「Ian Wallace (ornithologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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