found: Wikipedia, September 28, 2018(S. A. Hussain; Syed Abdulla Hussain (13 August 1944--30 December 2009) was an Indian ornithologist; he is best known for the work he undertook at the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) along with Salim Ali; Hussain was born in Karkala, near Mangalore (then a part of the Madras Presidency); he obtained a university degree in science from Sri Bhuvanendra College at Karkala; he applied for a field research position in the Bird Migration study project of the Bombay Natural History Society and although he had no formal education in zoology, Salim Ali found him very observant and accepted him; Hussain accompanied Ali on numerous expeditions and later conducted surveys on his own; Hussain became assistant curator of the BNHS in 1979, a senior scientist from 1985 to 1990 and then a deputy director of research until 1992; he later moved to Malaysia where he headed the Asian Wetland Bureau; he was also briefly the vice-chairman of BirdLife International; after retiring from work, he moved back to live in Karkala, where he started the Biodiversity Initiative Trust; he died of a heart attack at his home on 30 December 2009)
