We regret to inform the Ontario birding community that Dr. Martin
Edwards of Kingston passed away Feb.16 at age 85 on a birding trip in
Brazil with his son. Martin had the largest world list of any Canadian
and was number 5 in world listing with 8456 species. As early as 1985 he
had seen all the families, and kept up by adding the many family splits
since then. He also listed world genera saying "a new genus is worth 5
new species on the list".
Martin was a life long supporter of Conservation. He was past President
and Honorary President of the Kingston Field Naturalists, past President
of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, the Canadian Nature Federation
and Canadian rep on the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature.
Martin's doctorate was in Physics which he taught at the Royal Military
College in Kingston. But he also contributed research on the effect of
pesticides on colonial water birds in the Great Lakes in the days prior
to the ban on DDT.
The family asks that any donations in Martin's memory be made to the
Kingston Field Naturalists, Box 831, Kingson K7L 4X6
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Mark Cranford
ONTBIRDS Coordinator
Mississauga, Ont.
[email protected]
905 279 9576
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