Person
Wieneke, Jo
- Born
- Somerset, England
- Occupation
- School teacher and Ornithologist
Summary
Jo Wieneke is a keen amateur ornithologist who has been involved with guiding bird tours and assisting with field work and surveys. She has written several books on the birds of North Queensland.
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Born Somerset. Trained and worked as a teacher in New South Wales. Later moved to Magnetic Island. Wrote Birds of Magnetic Island, Birds of Townsville and Where to Find Them (1989) and Where to Find Birds in North East Queensland (1992).
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
Resources
- 'Wieneke, Jo', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-563374. Details
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
Rosanne Walker
Created: 20 April 2001, Last modified: 4 July 2012
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