Ian Cecil Robert Rowley

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Ian Cecil Robert Rowley is an Australian ornithologist who worked for many years with the CSIRO. He is well-known for his extensive studies on fairy-wrens. He served the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union as Editor of the Emu 1990-2000. He was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1989. In 1991 he was awarded the inaugural D.L. Serventy Medal, which recognises excellence in published work on birds. Published books include:

• Rowley, Ian. (1975). Bird Life. Australian Naturalist Library. Collins: Sydney.
• Rowley, Ian. (1990). Behavioural Ecology of the Galah, Eolophus roseicapillus, in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd: Chipping Norton.
• Rowley, Ian; & Russell, Eleanor. (1997). Fairy-wrens and Grasswrens. Bird Families of the World. No.4. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

[edit] References

• Davies, S.J.J.F. (1991). D.L. Serventy Medal: Citation. Ian Cecil Robert Rowley. Emu 91: 130.
• Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3