Richard Zann

Richard Alexis Zann (27 November 1944 – 7 February 2009) was an Australian ornithologist.

Early life and career Zann was born on 27 November 1944, and grew up in the town of Casino, New South Wales, where he developed a boyhood interest in wildlife. Zann was killed, along with his wife Eileen and daughter Eva, at Kinglake, Victoria in the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

Honours In 1998, Zann was awarded the D. L. Serventy Medal by the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region. In an obituary published in 2009, colleague Mike Clarke described Zann as "a reserved, humble, self-effacing man with a particularly dry sense of humour, who often made fun of his own shortcomings."