Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1900–1981) was a British artist, writer, illustrator, and radio presenter, specialising in birds and other

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subjects. Following education at

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and

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and training at St Mary's Hospital, he worked for twenty years as a

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at a large country practice in Burwell on the fen borders of

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, where he had spent his childhood. A career change in 1945 saw him become warden at the

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's Flatford Mill Field Centre, and from 1950, founder and director of the Monks' House Bird Observatory at

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, which he wrote about in ''The House on the Shore''. Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the

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. His son, Hugh, is also an accomplished artist.

Publications

*''Adventurers Fen'', Methuen (1942) ASIN B000X8EB86 *''The British Bird''

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(1943) *
The story of migration
', G.G. Harrap (1947) *''Life on the Sea Shore'', Oxford University Press (1948) *
East Anglia
', Issue 6 of The new naturalist (1949) *''The Lapwing'', Methuen (1949) *
Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely
', Robert Hale (1951) *
Field Study Books
', (1952) *
Ornithological report for Northumberland and Durham for 1956
', Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne (1957) *
Bird study in a garden: a book for bird watchers
', Penguin (1958) *''The House on the Shore: The Story of Monks' House Bird Observatory'',

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(1960''The House on the Shore'', publishers' errata slip) *''Birdwatching'', Pelham (1963) *
Tracks
', Clarendon (1967) *''The Clue Book BIRDS'' Oxford University Press (1968 - reprinted with corrections 1970, 1973) *''Birds and Seasons'' (introduction by Bob Walthew) Arlequin Press (1994) *''The Living Birds of Eric Ennion'' ( Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1982

Biography

*''Eric Ennion: A Life of Birds'' by Bob Walthew; introduction by

Robert Gillmor Robert Allen Fitzwilliam Gillmor MBE (6 July 1936 – 8 May 2022) was a British ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author, and editor. He was a co-founder of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) and was its secretary, chairman and presiden ...

, The Wildlife Art Gallery (2003)

References

External links

Official website
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