Ian Wallace (1933-2021) belonged to the generation of ornithologists who did much to popularise birdwatching.
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He made major
contributions to two of the most widely read ornithological works of his day: A
Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, and the nine-volume Handbook of
the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, to which he contributed
key sections on field characters and behaviour.
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Rare birds were Ian’s lifeblood: from 1963 to 1968 he was chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee, and by the late 1960s he had seen a wider variety of species in Britain than anyone else.
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