Peter Scott's Coloured Key to the Wildfowl of the World

by Peter Markham Scott

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Genres: Birds

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Generally known as Sir Peter Scott.

He represented Great Britain at sailing in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal in the O-Jolle class single-handed dinghy at Kiel.

During World War II, Scott served in the Royal Navy. He served first in destroyers in the North Atlantic but moved to commanding the First (and only) Squadron of Steam Gun Boats against German E-boats in the English Channel. He is also jointly credited with designing 'shadow camouflage', which disguised the look of ship superstructure. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery.

He was the skipper in the 1964 challenge for the America's Cup and from 1955-69 was the president of the International Sailing Federation. In 1963 he won the National Open Gliding Championship.

One of the founders of the World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly: World Wildlife Fund), and designer of the famous panda logo. He devised the Red Data Books for documenting endangered species of flora and fauna. Founder of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (formerly: Severn Wildfowl Trust) at Slimbridge.

Reviews

[Tina Ambury]

A brilliant reference guide that actually works.

[Janice Bridger]

I have the updated version- really useful if you go to Slimbridge or the other WWT reserves. It enables you to see how closely related birds such as pochard and tufted duck are, plus it helped me sort out all the geese such as white fronted and barnacle. Fact I learned- Canada geese were introduced into the UK first in the 17C- I thought it was much more recently.