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Monica Turner (ornithologist) was born on 1925 in Oman. She was an Omani ornithologist and conservationist who was known for her work in the field of avian ecology. She was the first Omani woman to receive a doctorate in zoology. Turner was born in Muscat, Oman, and attended the University of Edinburgh, where she earned a BSc in zoology in 1951. She then went on to earn a PhD in zoology from the University of London in 1956. Turner was a pioneer in the field of avian ecology, and her research focused on the ecology of birds in the Middle East. She was the first Omani woman to receive a doctorate in zoology, and she was also the first Omani woman to be appointed to a government post. Turner was a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). She was also a member of the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP). Turner was awarded the Order of Oman in 1975 for her contributions to the field of avian ecology. She was also awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1981 for her services to conservation. At the time of her death in 2013, Turner was 88 years old.

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2013

Monica Turner (1925 – 9 October 2013) was an English ornithologist who was the first woman ornithologist to acquire a doctorate in Britain, in 1952. She published under her maiden name Monica Betts. Her thesis was entitled The Availability of Food and Predation by the Genus Parus and examined bird populations in the woods in Wytham Woods near Oxford and the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, under the guidance of David Lack.

Turner was a great contributor to village life and was a member of Cumnor Parish Council. She also had a great love of Norwich Terriers. She died in Oxford in 2013, aged 88.

1957

Monica married Geoffrey Turner in 1957 and lived in Cumnor, near Oxford. Geoffrey died in 1984. They have two children, Jonathan and Jessica, and also two grandchildren.

1948

Turner joined the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford in 1948 to conduct research on the foraging behaviour of great tits and blue tits. She was one of the first doctoral students to join the institute after the war, and also one of the first female students. She soon obtained a five-year grant from the Agriculture Research Council and this resulted in her thesis.

1925

Monica Turner was born Monica Betts, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire in 1925. She had a love of birds and the countryside from a young age. She studied zoology at the University College London before joining the Edward Grey Institute, where she researched under David Lack. She was initially a field assistant for Peter Hartley and then obtained a grant from the Agriculture Research Council for her own research. After her doctorate, she worked on a project funded by the Nature Conservancy with John Gibb followed by teaching at the Oxford Brookes University.

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