Biographical entry Reilly, Pauline Neura (1918 - 2011)

Summary

Pauline Neura Reilly is an ornithologist and children's book writer. The photographs in her book, Fairy Penguins: A Brief Life History with Photographs, were all taken and prepared by her. While President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union she initiated the project to produce The Atlas of Australian Birds (published 1984, with Reilly as a co-author with Stephen Davies and Margaret Blakers) and was chairman of the committee for this project 1976-82.

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1942 - 1944

Career position - Gunner in the Australian Women's Air Service

1964 - 1981

Career position - Honorary Regional Victorian Organiser of the Australian Bird Banding Scheme at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Wildlife Research

1968 -

Career position - Founder and Leader of the Penguin Study Group of Victorian Ornithological Research Group

1969 - 1970

Career position - President of the Bird Banders' Association of Australia - the first woman president

1969 - 1984

Career position - Member of the Field Investigation Research Committee of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

1972 - 1975

Career position - President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union

1973

Career position - Leader of the expedition to the Great Australian Bight for penguin research, supported by grant from CSIRO Endowment Fund

1976 - 1982

Career position - Chairman of the Committee for The Atlas of Australian Birds

1978 - 1979

Career position - First woman to spend summer season on Macquarie Island in scientific capacity (banding penguins)

1981

Career position - Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (first woman Fellow)

1984

Award - Whitley Medal for Atlas of Australian Birds received from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

1987

Award - Whitley Book Award for Best Children's Series received from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

1992

Award - Whitley Book Award for Best Children's Educational Series received from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

August 1992

Career position - Invited to open the Second International Penguin Conference

1994 -

Career position - Chair of the Standing Committee for Environment Strategy Surf Coast Shire

1994

Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) received

1994

Award - Wilderness Society Award for Children's Literature (non-fiction) received

Related entries

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Reilly, Pauline', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-593706. Details
• Norris, Michael, 'Vale! Pauline Neura Reilly OAM', Birding-Aus, 26 April 2011, http://birding-aus.org/?p=10891. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 492 pp. Details