VINCENT SERVENTY

'Vincent Noel Serventy' OAM (1916-2007) is a noted Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist. Born in Western Australia, a younger brother of the eminent Australian ornithologist Dom Serventy, he was a teacher before beginning a career as a writer, lecturer and film-maker. He joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1942 and served as either its Branch Secretary or State Representative for Western Australia 1943-1959. For many years he was President of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia. In 1974 he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion. He was a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia. Vince passed away on Friday, September 7th 2007.
Serventy wrote numerous articles on natural history and conservation. Some of his books are:

★ 1952 - ''The Archipelago of the Recherche. Part 2: Birds''. AGS Report No.1. Australian Geographical Society: Melbourne.

★ 1965 - ''The Australian Nature Trail''. Georgian House: Melbourne.

★ 1966 - ''A Continent in Danger''. Survival Books. A Survival Special. Andre Deutsch: London.

★ 1969 - ''Nature Walkabout''. Reed: Artarmon.

★ 1969 - ''Southern Walkabout''. Reed: Artarmon.

★ 1970 - ''Around the Bush with Vincent Serventy''. ABC: Sydney.

★ 1970 - ''Dryandra. The story of an Australian forest''. Reed: Sydney.

★ 1985 - ''Australia’s World Heritage Sites''.

★ 1985 - ''The Desert Sea. The Miracle of Lake Eyre in Flood''. Macmillan Australia: Melbourne.

★ 1996 - ''Flight of the Shearwater''. Kangaroo Press: Kenthurst.

★ 1999 - ''An Australian Life. Memoirs of a naturalist, conservationist, traveller and writer''. Fremantle Arts Centre Press: South Fremantle.

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★ 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

★ Serventy, Vincent N. (1999). ''An Australian Life. Memoirs of a naturalist, conservationist, traveller and writer''. Fremantle Arts Centre Press: South Fremantle. ISBN 1-86368-232-5

External links

★ WPSA page on Vincent Serventy]