Ian Newton

Ian Newton (born 17 January 1940) is an English ornithologist.

Education and early life Newton was born and raised in north Derbyshire and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Bristol. He received his D.Phil. in 1964 and D.Sc. in 1982 from the University of Oxford, and has studied a wide range of bird species.

Career and research He has been interested in birds since his childhood. As a teenager he became particularly fascinated by finches and undertook doctoral and post-doctoral studies on them. Chairman of Saving India's Vultures from Extinction, and visiting professor of ornithology at the University of Oxford. Newton has also held the positions of President of the British Ornithologists' Union and the British Ecological Society (1994–1995).

Partial bibliography Finches (Collins New Naturalist Library) (1972) Population Ecology of Raptors (1979) T & A.D. Poyser. The Sparrowhawk (1986) T & A.D. Poyser. Population Limitation in Birds (1998) The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds (2003) The Migration Ecology of Birds (2008 1st ed.; 2024 2nd ed.) Bird Migration (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2010) (HB), (PB) Bird Populations (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2013) Farming and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2017) Uplands and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library) (2020)

Honours and awards Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union (1988) Gold Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (1991) Elliot Cowes Award of the American Ornithologists' Union (1995)