Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1900–1981) was a British artist, writer, illustrator, and radio presenter,[1] specialising in birds and other natural history subjects.
Following education at Epsom College[1] and Caius College, Cambridge[1] and training at St Mary's Hospital,[1] he worked for twenty years as a general practitioner at a large country practice in Burwell on the fen borders of Cambridge,[1] where he had spent his childhood. A career change in 1945 saw him become warden at the Field Studies Council's Flatford Mill Field Centre,[1] and from 1950, founder and director of the Monks' House Bird Observatory at Seahouses, Northumberland, which he wrote about in The House on the Shore.[1] Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
His son, Hugh, is also an accomplished artist.
Publications
- Adventurers Fen, Methuen (1942) ASIN B000X8EB86
- The British Bird Oxford University Press (1943)
- The story of migration, G.G. Harrap (1947)
- Life on the Sea Shore, Oxford University Press (1948)
- East Anglia, Issue 6 of The new naturalist (1949)
- The Lapwing, Methuen (1949)
- Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, Robert Hale (1951)
- Field Study Books, (1952)
- Ornithological report for Northumberland and Durham for 1956, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne (1957)
- Bird study in a garden: a book for bird watchers, Penguin (1958)
- The House on the Shore: The Story of Monks' House Bird Observatory, Routledge and Kegan Paul (1960[2])
- Birdwatching, Pelham (1963)
- Tracks, Clarendon (1967)
- The Clue Book BIRDS Oxford University Press (1968 - reprinted with corrections 1970, 1973)
- Birds and Seasons (introduction by Bob Walthew) Arlequin Press (1994)
- The Living Birds of Eric Ennion ( Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1982
Biography
- Eric Ennion: A Life of Birds by Bob Walthew; introduction by Robert Gillmor, The Wildlife Art Gallery (2003)