David Snow

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David William Snow (born September 30, 1924 (1924-09-30) (age 83)) is an English [[ornithologist].

Snow was born in Windermere. He was a femonstrator at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology from 1949 to 1957. From 1957 to 1961 he worked for the New York Zoological Society in Trinidad. From 1963 to 1964 he worked for the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands. He was Director of Research for the British Trust for Ornithology from 1964 to 1968, and from 1968 to 1984 he worked at the Natural History Museum.

David Snow edited The Ibis, Bird Study and the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club.

Snow is commemorated in the name of the critically endangered Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi.

[edit] Works

• A Study of Blackbirds (1958)
• The Web of Adaptation (1976)
• The Cotingas (1982)
• The Blackbird, Shire Natural History (1987) ISBN 0 85263 854 X
• Birds and Berries (with his wife Barbara Snow) (1988)
• The Handbook of the Birds of the Western Palearctic (editor)
• Birds, Discovery and Conservation: 100 years of the British Ornithologists' Club (editor), Helm Information (1992) ISBN 1-873403-15-1

[edit] References

• Beolens, B. & Watkins, M. - Whose Bird?