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Welsh ornithologist and naturalist. He wrote over fifty books on natural history, including a major study of shearwaters. He is perhaps best known for his book The Private Life of the Rabbit.. In 1927, with his first wife Doris Shellard, he took a 21-year lease of Skokholm, a small island some four miles off the western tip of Pembrokeshire, which was inhabited only by rabbits and seabirds. Attempts to make a living from catching and selling rabbits and breeding chinchilla rabbits were abandoned when he found he could make a better living writing articles and books.
Born: 8 November 1903 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Died: 12 April 2000
Nationality: British
Gender: Male