Glen Chilton
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Chilton in the jungles of the Philippines in 2013, searching for a rediscovered fruit bat
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| Born | Glen Dean Chilton 25 October 1958 Toronto |
| Occupation | Author, ornithologist, professor |
| Nationality | Canadian, Australian |
| Genre | Travel, Natural history, Humour |
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Glen Dean Chilton (born in 1958) is a Canadian-Australian scholar and author of humorous books on adventure travel and natural history.
Chilton is also an internationally recognised ornithologist and behavioural ecologist and is considered the world's leading authority on the extinct Labrador duck. His first book The Curse of the Labrador Duck was a finalist in 2010 for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His second book, Attack of the Killer Rhodondedrons (a.k.a. The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby) achieved the Queensland, Australia best-seller list in 2013.
Born of British descent in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Chilton moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his family in 1967. He received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in zoology from the University of Manitoba, and a PhD in ornithology and behavioural ecology from the University of Calgary, Alberta. He was professor of biology and ornithology at St. Mary's University College, Calgary, Alberta until moving to Australia in 2008. He is currently adjunct at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia and professor emeritus at St. Mary's University College.
Chilton's areas of expertise and scientific research include recent extinction events, particularly of bird species; the conservation of plant and animal species rediscovered after having been thought to be extinct; the impact of plant and animal species introduced into new geographic regions by humans; the cultural evolution and song dialects of songbirds; and the interactions between parasitic insects and their bird hosts.
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