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Reilly, Pauline Neura (1918 - )

OAM

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Ornithologist and Writer

Born: 5 December 1918 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Pauline Neura Reilly is an ornithologist and children's book writer. The photographs in her book, Fairy Penguins: A Brief Life History with Photographs, were all taken and prepared by her. While President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union she initiated the project to produce The Atlas of Australian Birds (published 1984, with Reilly as a co-author with Stephen Davies and Margaret Blakers) and was chairman of the committee for this project 1976-82.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1942 - 1944 Gunner in the Australian Women's Air Service
1964 - 1981 Honorary Regional Victorian Organiser of the Australian Bird Banding Scheme at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Wildlife Research
1968 - Founder and Leader of the Penguin Study Group of Victorian Ornithological Research Group
1969 - 1970 President of the Bird Banders' Association of Australia - the first woman president
1969 - 1984 Member of the Field Investigation Research Committee of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
1972 - 1975 President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
1973 Leader of the expedition to the Great Australian Bight for penguin research, supported by grant from CSIRO Endowment Fund
1976 - 1982 Chairman of the Committee for The Atlas of Australian Birds
1978 - 1979 First woman to spend summer season on Macquarie Island in scientific capacity (banding penguins)
1981 Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (first woman Fellow)
1984 Whitley Medal for Atlas of Australian Birds received from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1987 Whitley Book Award for Best Children's Series received from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1992 Invited to open the Second International Penguin Conference
1992 Whitley Book Award for Best Children's Educational Series received from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1994 - Chair of the Standing Committee for Environment Strategy Surf Coast Shire
1994 Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) received
1994 Wilderness Society Award for Children's Literature (non-fiction) received

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997
Modified: 25 May 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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