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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-01-31 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-02-28 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003129b.htm person Courtney John Edgar AACR2 1934 Place of Birth Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia Farmer Ornithologist John Courtney is an amateur ornithologist. His main interest is in the juvenile food-begging calls of birds, particularly parrots. In 1978 he showed for the first time that these calls are similar in closely related species and very different in distantly related species. For this work he was awarded the first Avi-award, Meritorious, by the Avicultural Society of Australia.

Courtney was born in Glen Innes in 1934 and raised on a farm, which he now runs, in the Inverell district of northern New South Wales. Assisted CSIRO Division of Entomology with research on the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo and cossid moth larvae in forestry plantations 1974; assisted in presenting requested bird calls to visitors to the 16th International Ornithological Congress, Canberra, 1974. These calls formed the basis of the first Field Guide to Australian Birdsong, which ran to 12 cassettes published over 22 years. He is particularly interested in the juvenile food-begging calls of birds and showed that they are similar in closely related species and very different in distantly related species. He also found that some young cuckoos mimic the calls of the young of their host species. John Hobbs Medal, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1999. New England Regional Representative, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1971-78.

 CSIRO Division of Entomology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1950 - )

Assisted Division of Entomology, CSIRO 1974

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 'Courtney, John Edgar', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Courtney, John Edgar Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation 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