Harry Frederick Recher

Professor Harry Frederick Recher is an Australian ornithologist who was born, and grew up in, the United States of America, studied at the State University of New York and Syracuse University before completing his PhD at Stanford University, California and moving to Australia in 1967.

From 1968 he worked for 20 years at the Australian Museum as a research scientist, focussing on conservation issues and the biology of forest and woodland birds. In 1988 he moved to the University of New England, and later to Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. More recently he has been editor of the journal Pacific Conservation Biology.

In 1994 he was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union's D.L. Serventy Medal for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region. As well as numerous published scientific papers, he has authored and edited several books.

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French, Kris. (1994). D.L. Serventy Medal 1994: Citation. Harry Frederick Recher. Emu 94: 223.
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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