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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2026-05-19 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003076b.htm person Reilly Pauline Neura OAM AACR2 5 December 1918 22 April 2011 Place of Birth Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Ornithologist Writer Pauline Reilly was an ornithologist and children's book writer. She contributed significantly to bird banding programs and field surveys of penguins, lyrebirds, muttonbirds and other species across Australia and on Macquarie Island. 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 co-authors Stephen Davies and Margaret Blakers) and was chairman of the committee for this project 1976-1982. Reilly received several awards for her children's books including from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. 1942 1944 Career position - Gunner in the Australian Women's Air Service 1958 1995 Career position - Member, Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme 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, 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, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1973 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 1981 Career position - Fellow, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (first woman Fellow) 1984 1984 Award - Whitley Medal for Atlas of Australian Birds, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1987 1987 Award - Whitley Book Award for Best Children's Series, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1988 1993 Career position - Vice-President, Victorian Wetland Trust 1992 1992 Award - Whitley Book Award for Best Children's Educational Series, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1992 1996 Career position - Member Committee of Management, Serendip Wildlife Reserve, Victoria August 1992 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 1994 Award - Wilderness Society Award for Children's Literature (non-fiction) 1994 1994 Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) - for service to ornithology 2001 2001 Award - J. N. Hobbs Medal, Birds Australia 2005 2005 Award - W. Roy. Wheeler Medallion, Bird Observers' Club 2005 2005 Award - Australian Natural History Medallion W. Roy Wheeler Medallion, Bird Observers' Club (2005)

Awarded the Medallion 2005

 Science and Industry Endowment Fund - CSIR/O, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1926 - )

Leader of the expedition to the Great Australian Bight for penguin research 1973

 Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1910 - 1997)

President 1972 - 1975; Fellow 1981 - 1997

 Birds Australia (1997 - 2011)

Fellow 1997 - 2011

 Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (1940 - )

Awarded the Medallion 2005

 CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1962 - 1982)

Honorary Regional Victorian Organiser of the Australian Bird Banding Scheme 1964 - 1981

 Bird Banders' Association of Australia (1963 - 1976)

President 1969 - 1970

 J. N. Hobbs Memorial Medal, Birdlife Australia (1995 - )

Awarded the Medal 2001

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 Reilly, Pauline (1918-)

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 'Reilly, Pauline Neura', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Reilly, Pauline Neura Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Article: Vale! Pauline Neura Reilly OAM Norris, Michael Vale! Pauline Neura Reilly OAM Birding-Aus 2011 Journal Article: Australian Natural History Medallion 2005: Pauline Reilly Endersby, Ian Australian Natural History Medallion 2005: Pauline Reilly 2006 The Victorian naturalist 123 1 47-8 Journal Article: The Science and Industry Endowment Fund: supporting the development of Australian science Smith, Susan and Spurling, Thomas H. The Science and Industry Endowment Fund: supporting the development of Australian science CSIRO Publishing 2015 Historical Records of Australian Science 26 1 58-83 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001