Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian National Herbarium
Biographical Notes
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Davies, Stephen John James Frank (1935 - 2020)Born 26 April 1935, in Sydney, NSW; died on 29 October 2020 at Perth, WA.
His childhood was mainly at Castle Hill, near Sydney, but with two years at Thursday Island,
Queensland.
His schooling was at The King's School, Parramatta, N.S.W. (1943-1952) and The Elms School, Colwall,
Malvern, England (1948).
He was an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1953-1956; and graduated with honours in
Zoology in 1956.
He attended a marine course at Bangor, Wales, in 1955, two
bird biology courses at Oxford (1955,1956) and visited Swedish Lapland in 1955 as a
member of the Cambridge Lapland Expedition 1955.
He joined the Wildlife Survey Section of CSIRO in 1956 and
studied the behaviour and ecology of Magpie Geese at Darwin 1956-1959. During that time he carried out a number of experimental studies on the behaviour of
captive Magpie Geese.
In 1959 he moved to Western Australia to begin studies of the
pattern of movement of Emus in north-western Australia and of White-tailed Black
Cockatoos in south-western Australia.
He undertook a PhD Course 1961-1964 at the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley, Cambridge,
England on studies of the
behaviour of Streptopelia doves and their hybrids in captivity.
He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), President (1975-1978) and Chairman of the RAOU Research Committee (1975-1984). He was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1984. From 1984 to 1988 he also served the RAOU as its first paid (albeit part-time) Director.
From 1984 to 1988 he lectured in Wildlife Management at the School of Agriculture and Forestry,
Melbourne University, and in 1986 gave two courses on Wildlife Management at
Footscray College of Technical and Further Education (Victoria).
He supervised 16 honours, 3 masters
and 10 PhD students, all of whom completed their degrees.
From 1989 he was Scientific Consultant to Iluka Resources Ltd Capel Wetlands Centre.
His hobbies included breeding Shropshire sheep of which he maintained a stud since 1969, and he exhibited
sheep regularly in the Perth Royal Show.
Source: Extracted from:
The Ryerson Index - Davies, Stephen John James Frank
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003068b.htm
https://dbpedia.org/page/Stephen_Davies_(ornithologist)
http://muresk.curtin.edu.au/staff/stephen/cv.pdf
Portrait Photo: extracted from: Robin, Libby, 'The Flight of the Emu', MUP, 2001, p.226.
Data from 1,937 specimens
