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Colin James Oliver Harrison (18 August 1926 – 17 November 2003) was an English ornithologist. Harrison was born in London. He got a scholarship to grammar school, and then worked as a librarian and a teacher. He had been interested in birds since childhood, and joined an expedition to study autumn migration in Norway. He became a professional ornithologist at the age of 34 and became responsible for the care of the national collection of birds' nests and eggs in the Bird Room at the Natural History Museum at Tring, Hertfordshire. In 1966 he led the fourth of the series of Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expeditions.

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  • Colin James Oliver Harrison (18 August 1926 – 17 November 2003) was an English ornithologist. Harrison was born in London. He got a scholarship to grammar school, and then worked as a librarian and a teacher. He had been interested in birds since childhood, and joined an expedition to study autumn migration in Norway. He became a professional ornithologist at the age of 34 and became responsible for the care of the national collection of birds' nests and eggs in the Bird Room at the Natural History Museum at Tring, Hertfordshire. In 1966 he led the fourth of the series of Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expeditions. Harrison later became interested in biogeography and the museum's avian paleontological collection, on which he published a number of articles with Cyril Walker. He studied and published on different aspects of bird behaviour, on plumage patterns, and on the bone structure of modern and fossil birds. He identified Eostrix vincenti in 1980. (en)
  • Colin James Oliver Harrison (1926-2003) est un ornithologue britannique, ayant travaillé sur les collections d'œufs du musée d'histoire naturelle de Londres puis s'est intéressé à la biogéographie et à la paléontologie, ayant notamment publié aux côtés de plusieurs articles sur des groupes d'oiseaux fossiles. (fr)
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  • Colin James Oliver Harrison (1926-2003) est un ornithologue britannique, ayant travaillé sur les collections d'œufs du musée d'histoire naturelle de Londres puis s'est intéressé à la biogéographie et à la paléontologie, ayant notamment publié aux côtés de plusieurs articles sur des groupes d'oiseaux fossiles. (fr)
  • Colin James Oliver Harrison (18 August 1926 – 17 November 2003) was an English ornithologist. Harrison was born in London. He got a scholarship to grammar school, and then worked as a librarian and a teacher. He had been interested in birds since childhood, and joined an expedition to study autumn migration in Norway. He became a professional ornithologist at the age of 34 and became responsible for the care of the national collection of birds' nests and eggs in the Bird Room at the Natural History Museum at Tring, Hertfordshire. In 1966 he led the fourth of the series of Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expeditions. (en)
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  • Colin Harrison (ornithologist) (en)
  • Colin Harrison (paléontologue) (fr)
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