This evening a young man who has travelled widely and has gained a great reputation for bird watching is to give the first of three talks on birds. Tom Harrisson wrote a book on local birds while he was still at school at Harrow, and then he joined the Oxford University Expedition to Lapland, and at Cambridge carried out the Great Crested Grebe national census, the biggest inquiry of its kind. He went on the Oxford and Cambridge expedition to St. Kilda the year the island was evacuated, and also carried out investigations all over Britain on the numbers and increase of the Greater Black Backed Gull.
In 1932 he was leader of the Oxford University Expedition to Borneo, and he continued his work in connection with tropical birds in a further journey to the New Hebrides.
This evening he is to ask the question: Why Watch Birds? And on April 20 he is to make a poignant plea for the Little Owl.