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Tribute to Professor Henry Allan Nix AO: pre-eminent biogeographer and ornithologist (8 July 1937–2 February 2022)

Tribute to Professor Henry Allan Nix AO: pre-eminent biogeographer and ornithologist (8 July... NEWS AND VIEWS https://doi.org/10.1071/PC22006 Tribute to Professor Henry Allan Nix AO: pre-eminent biogeographer and ornithologist (8 July 1937–2 February 2022) A, B C Denis A. Saunders * , Penny Olsen and Ross Cunningham Henry Nix was an engaging, gentle, generous, charming, principled man, and an excellent For full list of author affiliations and declarations see end of paper scientist. His distinctiveness was in his personal attributes, his vast knowledge, his lateral creative, critical thinking skills, and his outstanding mentoring and networking skills, both *Correspondence to: personal and scientific. He possessed extensive biographic knowledge, remarkable Denis A. Saunders prescience, and was a great naturalist. On a road trip from Canberra to Darwin, he was Retired able to anticipate and call every major creek and river, as well identify almost every Email: carnabys@hotmail.com tree and bird species on the way, and could always offer a plausible theory as to ‘why’ it was there. He was also known for his wicked sense of humour, and would use every opportunity to take, with great glee, the mickey out of unsuspecting listeners. Henry was a proud Queenslander, who grew up in the city, but developed a love of nature, and birds in particular. At http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pacific Conservation Biology CSIRO Publishing

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NEWS AND VIEWS https://doi.org/10.1071/PC22006 Tribute to Professor Henry Allan Nix AO: pre-eminent biogeographer and ornithologist (8 July 1937–2 February 2022) A, B C Denis A. Saunders * , Penny Olsen and Ross Cunningham Henry Nix was an engaging, gentle, generous, charming, principled man, and an excellent For full list of author affiliations and declarations see end of paper scientist. His distinctiveness was in his personal attributes, his vast knowledge, his lateral creative, critical thinking skills, and his outstanding mentoring and networking skills, both *Correspondence to: personal and scientific. He possessed extensive biographic knowledge, remarkable Denis A. Saunders prescience, and was a great naturalist. On a road trip from Canberra to Darwin, he was Retired able to anticipate and call every major creek and river, as well identify almost every Email: carnabys@hotmail.com tree and bird species on the way, and could always offer a plausible theory as to ‘why’ it was there. He was also known for his wicked sense of humour, and would use every opportunity to take, with great glee, the mickey out of unsuspecting listeners. Henry was a proud Queenslander, who grew up in the city, but developed a love of nature, and birds in particular. At

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Published: Mar 15, 2022

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