Person

McCulloch, Ellen Margery (1930 - 2005)

OAM

Born
23 April 1930
Belgrave, Victoria, Australia
Died
13 November 2005
Occupation
Ornithologist

Summary

Ellen McCulloch was a long-term member, Honorary Secretary (1975-1982) and Public Relations Officer of the Bird Observers Club of Australia (BOCA). She authored many books including two with Tess Kloot (Garden Birds of South-East Australia and Birds of Australian Gardens) and lectured and ran tours for the CAE (Council for Adult Education, Melbourne) for over ten years. Some of McCulloch's many other activities and contributions to Australian ornithology include: volunteer work at the ornithology department of the National Museum of Victoria with Allan McEvey for sixteen years, an inaugural member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Field Investigations Committee, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Land for Wildlife project (Victorian Fisheries and Wildlife division), was a non-government advisor on the Australia-Japan protection for migratory birds protection scheme, a member of the Royal Melbourne Institute of technology experimental ethics committee, BOCA delegate to the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, organized bird and butterfly surveys, and was a member of the advisory committee of the Australian Bird Environment Foundation. In 1991 Ellen McCulloch received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her outstanding contributions to ornithology.

Details

Chronology

1963 -
Career position - Member of the Bird Observers Club of Australia
1975 - c. 1982
Career position - Honorary Secretary of the Bird Observers Club of Australia
1978
Career position - Birds in Victoria from 1770-1978 exhibition held at Ripponlea (Victoria)
1985
Award - BOCA life membership received
1987
Career position - Your Garden Birds published
1990
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion
1991
Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) received
2000
Career position - Birds in Your Garden published

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Journal Articles

  • Kloot, Tess, 'Ellen Margery McCulloch OAM', The Victorian naturalist, 123 (2) (2006), 111-112. Details

Newspaper Articles

  • Kloot, Tess, 'High-flyer saved habitats for winged friends', The Age (2006), 14. Details
  • McCulloch, Ellen, 'Obituary - Ailsa Macvey Swan - Conservationist', The Age (1998). Details

Resources

See also

  • Brown-May, Andrew and Swain, Shurlee eds, The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Port Melbourne, Vic: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 820 pp. Details
  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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