Person

Kloot, Tess (1923 - 2016)

Born
11 November 1923
Died
10 November 2016
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Librarian and Ornithologist
Alternative Names
  • Bulatova, Tatiana (Tess) (maiden name)

Summary

Tess Kloot was a librarian and archivist, and a keen ornithologist. She was an active member of the Royal Australasian Ornithological Union (RAOU) (for which she was archivist for some years), the Bird Observers' Club and the Victorian Ornithological Research Group (VORG). For the RAOU she participated in bird surveys 1977 - 1981; and for VORG she contributed to bird surveys and organised those in her local area of Box Hill 1988 - 1991. For many years she volunteered at the National Museum of Victoria in the bird section with curator Alan McEvey. With fellow volunteer at the Museum, Ellen McCulloch, she published several illustrated books on garden birds. For some years she also volunteered at the National Herbarium of Victoria in the specimen mounting program. Among Kloot's publications was a series of articles titled "The biography behind the bird". One of Kloot's greatest achievements was to assemble first-hand information on ornithologists connected with Australian birds. She assembled 587 files, together with newspaper clippings and photographs; in 2003 this was accepted by the State Library of Victoria as the Tess Kloot Collection.

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Chronology

1988 - 1991
Life event - Organised bird surveys in Box Hill, Victoria, for the Victorian Ornithological Research Group
2003
Event - Biographical material on Australian ornithologists donated to the State library of Victoria: the Tess Kloot Collection
2005
Award - Distinguished Service Award, Bird Observers' Club

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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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Kloot, Tess, Whittell (1618-1950) supplemented: additions and emendations to H. M. Whittell's "The literature of Australian birds" (Nunawading, Vic.: Bird Observers Club of Australia, ), 115 pp. Details
  • Kloot, Tess and McCulloch, Ellen M.: illustrated by Rex Davies, Some garden birds of south-east Australia (Sydney: Collins, 1970), 138 pp. Details
  • Kloot, Tess: with illustrations by Nicholas Day, The Birds of Box Hill in the City of Whitehorse (Melbourne: Victorian Ornithological Research Group, 2000), 90 pp. Details
  • Trusler, Peter, Birds of Australian gardens (Adelaide: Rigby, 1980), 191 pp. Details

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Journal Articles

Newspaper Articles

  • Kloot, Tess, 'High-flyer saved habitats for winged friends', The Age (2006), 14. Details

Resources

See also

  • 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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