Editing Edward Max Nicholson (section)

==Early life==
Max Nicholson, as he was known to all, was born in [[Kilternan]], [[Ireland]], to English parents. His family moved to England in 1910, settling in [[Staines]]. He became interested in natural history after a visit to the natural history museum and later took to [[birdwatching]], beginning to maintain a list of birds seen from 1913.<ref name=vickers>Vickers, Hugo (2003) [http://www.maxnicholson.com/obituaries/independent.htm Obituary] The Independent. 29 April 2003</ref>

He was educated at [[Sedbergh School]] in [[Cumbria]] and then [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] from 1926, winning scholarships to both. At Oxford, he read history and visited [[Greenland]] and [[British Guiana]] as a founder member of the [[Oxford University Exploration Club]]. At Oxford, he organized bird counts and censuses on the University's farm at Sanford.<ref name=auk/> In 1928, Nicholson created and managed the first national birdwatch survey, a survey of the [[grey heron]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guida|first=Michael|date=2019-04-01|title=1928. Popular bird-watching becomes scientific: The first national bird census in Britain|journal=Public Understanding of Science|volume=28|issue=5|language=en|pages=622–627|doi=10.1177/0963662519839555|pmid=30931838|s2cid=89620094|issn=0963-6625}}</ref>