John Leonard Frederick Parslow (1935–2015) was an English ornithologist and author.
John Parslow
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| Born | John Leonard Frederick Parslow (1935-07-10)10 July 1935
London, England
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| Died | 23 October 2015(2015-10-23) (aged 80) |
| Nationality | English |
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Parslow was born on 10 July 1935 in London, and, after wartime evacuationtoCornwall, was educated at Chingford Grammar School.[1] He undertook National ServiceatRAF Bawdsey, as a radar operator, from which he was demobbed in 1952.[1]
After work in the Bird Room of the British Museum, he joined the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology in 1959, as assistant to David Lack.[1] he moved to the Nature Conservancy Council's Monks Wood Experimental Station in 1967 to work as an information scientist, investigating the effects of pesticides on the food chain of birds.[1] He was the RSPB's Director of Conservation and Reserves from 1975 to 1987.[1]
Parslow did pioneering work on the detection of bird migration using radar.[2][3] He was also involved in the creation of a bird observatoryatSt. Agnes on the Isles of Scilly, which operated from 1957 to 1967.[1]
Parslow was the author of several books, a number of papers on bird migration, and a series of articles for British Birds.[1]
He died at home on 23 October 2015,[1][4] and was buried at the Arbory Trust Woodland Burial Ground in Barton, Cambridgeshire.[4] He was married twice, to Rosemary, with whom he had a son and two daughters, and to Mariko, who survived him.[1]
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