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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-02-02 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-10-08 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003139b.htm person Forshaw Joseph Michael AM AACR2 Place of Birth Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Biologist Ornithologist Joseph Forshaw, an expert on parrots, has been a senior environmental officer with Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service (now Environment Australia) since 1974.

Born Newcastle. Trained as a pharmacist. Biologist, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research ca 1960-74; senior environmental officer, Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service from 1974. Sometime research associate, Department of Ornithology, Australian Museum. Sometime chairman of the International Council for Bird Preservation World Working Group on Parrots (ca 1978-80). Churchill Fellow 1970; Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal 1977. One of the first honorary members of the Birds Australia Parrots Association, which started in 1996. Wrote Australian Parrots (1969) and Parrots of the World (1978), both illustrated by William T. Cooper.

1 Aug 1977 1 Aug 1977 Award - Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal 26 Jan 2016 26 Jan 2016 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for significant service to ornithology as an author and researcher, and as a contributor to a range of wildlife conservation organisations CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1962 - 1982) 1960 1974

Biologist at the Division of Wildlife Research, CSIRO

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 'Forshaw, Joseph Michael', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Forshaw, Joseph Michael 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