C. Stuart Houston

C. Stuart Houston (September 26, 1927 – July 22, 2021) was an American-born Canadian physician, professor emeritus of medicine in radiology, award-winning ornithologist, historian, and writer. He was awarded the 1990 Eisenmann Medal and was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1993.

In 1960, Houston moved with his family to Saskatoon where he began training in diagnostic radiology at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital. With the support of a George Von L. Meyer Memorial Scholarship, he later studied for a year in affiliation with Harvard Medical School at Children's Hospital Boston. He joined in 1964 the department of diagnostic radiology at the University of Saskatchewan, where he became a professor in 1969 He also holds records for the most bandings of turkey vultures and great horned owls. Mary Houston banded 5,385 Bohemian waxwings, which in 2017 was more than the next three competitors combined. Houston and Farley Mowat once worked together banding birds and Mowat sent him a field guide. and Robert Hood (who died on the Coppermine expedition), and naturalist John Richardson. Stuart is the author or coauthor of several other books, including Birds of Saskatchewan (2020).

with Merle Massie:

(Birds of Saskatchewan is one of five books shortlisted as nominees for the 2020 Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award.)