HC Deb 03 March 1955 vol 537 c299W
23. Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the fact that five persons have been appointed as members of the Advisory Committee on the Protection of Birds on the grounds that they are ornithologists, what qualifications a person must possess to satisfy his Department that he can be described as an ornithologist.

Major Lloyd-George

The ornithologists on the Advisory Committee on the Protection of Birds for England and Wales were selected from persons nominated by the Nature Conservancy and the principal scientific bodies concerned with ornithology.