Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person/Wikidata James John Maitland Flegg, OBE (23 April 1937 – 7 May 2024) was a British horticulturalist, broadcaster, ornithologist and writer on bird-related matters.

Life and careerEdit

Flegg was born in Hong Kong on 23 April 1937<ref name="Vane-Wright">Template:Cite journal</ref> and was a zoology graduate of Imperial College London who spent much of his subsequent professional career working in horticulture at the East Malling Research Station.<ref name="Vane-Wright" /><ref name=nfs>National Fruit Show Judges – Dr Jim Flegg, accessed 20-03-14</ref> He authored a number of papers on nematodes.<ref name="Vane-Wright" />

Flegg also had a lifelong interest in ornithology, having joined the Rochester and District Natural History Society as a junior member. As an ornithologist, he became well-known, having become president of Kent Ornithological Society in 1977, and was Director of the British Trust for Ornithology from 1995 to 1998.<ref name="Vane-Wright" /> He was a presenter on the regional Coastal Ways and Country Ways television programmes for Meridian Broadcasting.<ref name="Vane-Wright" /> He also served as chairman of the trustees of Dungeness Bird Observatory.<ref name="Vane-Wright" />

Flegg was a bird ringer and ringed over 30,000 birds.Template:Citation needed Among the books Flegg authored are the Photographic Field Guide: Birds of Australia, and a number of books designed to interest children in living things from an early age.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1997 Birthday Honours.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Flegg died at home on 7 May 2024, at the age of 87.<ref name="Vane-Wright" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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