Pennycuick, C. J. (Colin J.)

found: His Conversion factors, c1988:CIP t.p. (C.J. Pennycuick) author info. (Colin J. Pennycuick) is a well-known ornithologist)

found: Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 24, 2020(Colin Pennycuick; Colin James Pennycuick, zoologist, born 11 June 1933, Windsor, Berkshire; died 9 December 2019; the pre-eminent researcher in animal flight over the last century. He focused on the flight of bats and birds (and their possible ancestors); studied zoology as an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford, and worked on his PhD at Peterhouse, Cambridge; in 1964 began a long association with the zoology department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In 1983, he left for Miami University, which became a handy launch point for expeditions to the Everglades, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Idaho, and further afield in Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Peru. In 1992 he left Miami. He was appointed research professor in zoology at the University of Bristol in 1993, and senior research fellow in 1997)