John Flux Author

John Flux the author of this book was born 1934 in Maymyo, Burma; moved to Channel Islands, UK, 1939 -1940; Scotland 1940-1960. At school (Mackie Academy, Stonehaven) no biology was taught, but in the final year 2 hours every Friday was spent on Hamlet. After a BSc and PhD at Aberdeen university, John joined Ecology Division DSIR in 1960 to study hares at night. To occupy the day, a starling study began in 1970. Apart from papers on these, as an old-style naturalist he has published on trout, grouse, swallows, thrushes, blackbirds, wallabies, butterflies, cats, pigeons, possums, rats;  fleas, ticks, and seed burrs carried;  leaf shapes and colour, tree-trunk diameter, by-the-wind sailors, bird-nest/plant mutualism, dandelions, lichens, wool-carder bees, harriers on road-kill, colour-blindness, moth evolution, bird spacing, and "Biogeographic theory and the number and habitat of moas".