George Mack (ornithologist)

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George Mack (1899-1963) was mainly a museum ornithologist and collector. He migrated from Britain to Western Australia in 1919. He worked at the National Museum of Victoria 1923-1945. He then worked at the Queensland Museum from 1945, rising to become Director in 1963, the year of his death. It was his controversial action in shooting a Scarlet Robin during the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) campout in Marlo, Victoria in 1935 that catalysed change in the RAOU's attitude to collecting.

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  • Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0522849873
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