John ParslowJohn Parslow was an English ornithologist and author, born on 10 July 1935 in London. After work in the Bird Room of the British Museum, he joined the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology in 1959. He moved to the Nature Conservancy Councl's Monks Wood Experimental Station in 1967 to work as an information scientist, investigating the effects of pesticides on the food chain of birds. He was the RSPB's Director of Conservation and Reserves from 1975 to 1987. Parslow did pioneering work on the detection of bird migration using radar. He was also involved in the creation of a bird observatory at St. Agnes on the Isles of Scilly, which operated from 1957 to 1967. He was the author of several books, a number of papers on bird migration, and a series of articles for British Birds. He died at home on 23 October 2015. Read More Read Less