David Armitage Bannerman

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David Armitage Bannerman
Born	1886
Died	April 6, 1979 (aged 92–93)
Occupation	Ornithologist
Nationality	British
Genres	Non-fiction
Subjects	Ornithology

David Armitage Bannerman OBE, MA, SD (Cantab), Hon. LL.D. (Glasgow), FRSE, FZS ^[1] (1886 - April 6, 1979) was a British ornithologist.

After graduating from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1909, he travelled extensively in Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Atlantic Islands. ^[2]

Rejected on health grounds by the military, Bannerman served with the Red Cross for four years in France during World War I, earning the Mons Star^[2], He was then employed, part time, at the Natural History Museum^[3], until his retirement in 1951, having twice declined the directorship of the British Museum^[2]. He was chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1932 to 1935, having edited their Bulletin from 1914-1915 and was Vice President of the British Ornithologists Union and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

He also wrote for Ibis.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Contributions 1.2 Notable articles 2 References

[edit] Bibliography

• The Birds of Tropical West Africa (illustrated by George Edward Lodge; 8 vols) 1930-1951
• The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa (2 vols) 1953
• Larger Birds of West Africa, Penguin (London) 1958
• Birds of Cyprus (with W. Mary Bannerman), Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1958
• The Birds of the British Isles (illustrated by Lodge) Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh (12 vols) 1933-1963
• The Birds of the Atlantic Islands (with W. Mary Bannerman, illustrated by D. M. Reid-Henry) Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh (4 vols) 1963-1968 ISBN 9780050018
  • Vol. 1 A History of the Birds of the Canary Islands and the Salvages, 1963
• Handbook of the Birds of Cyprus and Migrants of the Middle East (with W. Mary Bannerman) Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1971 ISBN 9780050024454
• Birds of the Maltese Archipelago (with Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero) Museums Department, Valletta 1976
• The Birds of the Balearics' (with W. Mary Bannerman, illustrated by Donald Watson) Croom Helm/Tanager Books 1983 ISBN 9780880720229

[edit] Contributions

• George Lodge - Artist Naturalist John Savory (Ed.), Croom Helm, 1986 ISBN 0-7099-3366-5
  • The chapter Lodge the Man, a Biography

[edit] Notable articles

• Exhibition and description of a new subspecies of oystercatcher (Haematopus niger meade-waldoi) from the Canary Islands. Bull. B. O. C. 31: 33-34. (1913)

• A probable sight record of a Canarian black oystercatcher. Ibis 111: 257. (1969)

[edit] References

1. ^ Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
2. ^ ^{a b c} Obituary, RSPB Birds magazine, Vol 7 No 7, November-December 1979, pp8-9
3. ^ Savory

• Watson, D (1980). "Obituary: David Armitage Bannerman (1886-1979)". British Birds 73: 26–29. ISSN 0007-0335.