Dr Jim Flegg OBE is a British ornithologist and writer on bird-related matters. He is also a former director of the British Trust for Ornithology. He joined the Rochester and District Natural History Society as a junior member. As an ornithologist, he became well-known, and became president of Kent Ornithological Society in 1977. He was a national household name because of his role as a presenter on the Coastal Ways and Country Ways television programmes.
He is a bird ringer and has ringed over 30,000 birds.
Among the books Flegg has 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.
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“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)