Vincent Noel Serventy

Vincent Noel Serventy OAM (1916- ) is a noted Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist. A younger brother of the eminent Australian ornithologist Dom Serventy, he was a teacher before beginning a career as a writer, lecturer and film-maker. He joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1942 and served as either its Branch Secretary or State Representative for Western Australia 1943-1959. For many years he was President of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia. In 1974 he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion. He was a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Serventy wrote numerous articles on natural history and conservation. Some of his books are:

Serventy, V.N. (1952). The Archipelago of the Recherche. Part 2: Birds. AGS Report No.1. Australian Geographical Society: Melbourne.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1965). The Australian Nature Trail. Georgian House: Melbourne.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1966). A Continent in Danger. Survival Books. A Survival Special. Andre Deutsch: London.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1969). Nature Walkabout. Reed: Artarmon.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1969). Southern Walkabout. Reed: Artarmon.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1970). Around the Bush with Vincent Serventy. ABC: Sydney.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1970). Dryandra. The story of an Australian forest. Reed: Sydney.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1985). The Desert Sea. The Miracle of Lake Eyre in Flood. Macmillan Australia: Melbourne.
Serventy, Vincent N. (1996). Flight of the Shearwater. Kangaroo Press: Kenthurst..

[edit] References

Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0522849873
Serventy, Vincent N. (1999). An Australian Life. Memoirs of a naturalist, conservationist, traveller and writer. Fremantle Arts Centre Press: South Fremantle. ISBN 1-86368-232-5

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