Frith, Clifford

Clifford Frith has authored four major ornithological monographs, two winning a prestigious Whitley Book Award, a substantial natural history of Australia s Cape York Peninsula wilderness plus other titles. He was awarded, jointly with Dawn Frith, the 1996 D. L. Serventy Medal for original contributions to Australasian ornithology. His PhD, awarded by Griffith University, involved evolutionary studies of bowerbirds and birds of paradise.