James Parsons Burkitt

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James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959) was a clergyman who studied European Robins in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, in the early years of the twentieth century. His research, which he undertook as an amateur, and which was published in the journal British Birds between 1924 and 1926, was one of the first studies of bird behaviour and territory to use rings that enabled individual birds to be identified in the field.

Burkitt's work was greatly admired by David Lack, who carried out further research on robins in the 1930s and 1940s.

Burkitt's son was the surgeon Denis Parsons Burkitt, for whom Burkitt's lymphoma is named.

[edit] Publications

  • Burkitt, J. P. (1924–6) A study of robins by means of marked birds. British Birds 17: 294–303; 18: 97–103, 250–7; 19: 120–4; 20: 91–101.



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