Biographical entry Frith, Dawn Whyatt (1943 - )

Summary

Dawn Whyatt Frith and her husband, Cliff contributed greatly to Australasian ornithology. They carried out long-term studies of bower birds and birds of paradise in northern Queensland and in New Guinea, from which they have written the first - and often the only - accounts of the nesting biology and behaviour of these species

Details

Educated University of London (PhD in marine biology ca 1967). Lecturer in zoology for 4 years; worked at the Royal Society of London Research Station on Aldabra Atoll in the western Indian Ocean, monitoring the seasonality of insects for the British Museum of Natural History; senior biologist, Phuket Marine Biological Centre, Thailand 1974-78. Over the past 18 years she and her husband, Cliff, have published more than 50 papers in international ornithological journals, and have also authored an excellent series of books for a more general audience on the fauna of North Queensland. D.L. Serventy Medal, Birds Australia 1996 (jointly with her husband).

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Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Frith, Dawn W', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-625742. 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