Biographical entry McCulloch, Ellen Margery (1930 - 2005)

Summary

Ellen Margery McCulloch was a long-term member, Honorary Secretary (1975-1982) and Public Relations Officer of the Bird Observers Club of Australia (BOCA). She authored many books including two with Tess Kloot (Garden Birds of South-East Australia and Birds of Australian Gardens) and lectured and ran tours for the CAE (Council for Adult Education, Melbourne) for over ten years. Some of McCulloch's many other activities and contributions to Australian ornithology include: volunteer work at the ornithology department of the National Museum of Victoria with Allan McEvey for sixteen years, an inaugural member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Field Investigations Committee, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Land for Wildlife project (Victorian Fisheries and Wildlife division), was a non-government advisor on the Australia-Japan protection for migratory birds protection scheme, a member of the Royal Melbourne Institute of technology experimental ethics committee, BOCA delegate to the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, organized bird and butterfly surveys, and was a member of the advisory committee of the Australian Bird Environment Foundation. In 1991 Ellen McCulloch received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her outstanding contributions to ornithology.

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Events

1963 -

Career position - Member of the Bird Observers Club of Australia

1975 - c. 1982

Career position - Honorary Secretary of the Bird Observers Club of Australia

1978

Career position - Birds in Victoria from 1770-1978 exhibition held at Ripponlea (Victoria)

1985

Award - BOCA life membership received

1987

Career position - Your Garden Birds published

1991

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

2000

Career position - Birds in Your Garden published

Related entries

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

• Kloot, Tess, 'High-flyer saved habitats for winged friends', The Age (Melbourne), 4 January 2006, p. 14. Details
• McCulloch, Ellen, 'Obituary - Ailsa Macvey Swan - Conservationist', The Age, 7 May 1998. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'McCulloch, Ellen M', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-504352. Details

See also

• Brown-May, Andrew; Swain, Shurlee (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005, 820 pp. Details
• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 492 pp. Details