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- 1 2 3 4 "The Janet Kear Union Medal". British Ornithologists' Union. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ↑ Mountfort, Guy (1959). "One Hundred Years of the British Ornithologists' Union". Ibis . 101 (1): 8–18. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1959.tb02352.x. ISSN 1474-919X.
- ↑ "About the BOU". British Ornithologists' Union. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017.