Alice Hibbert-Ware was a New Zealand-born naturalist and educator, who is particularly notable for her research and report on the Little Owl and described as one of the "unsung heroines of modern ecology.

[3] Hibbert-Ware regularly wrote for the School Nature Study Union, sharing her observations to teachers.

[2] During the First World War, Hibbert-Ware took on the role of curator for the Museum of St George's in the East in Stepney.

[1] By 1936, the Little Owl had been removed from the protected list from fifteen counties under the approval of the Home Office.

[7] As a newspaper at the time put it "the Little Owl was found 'not guilty'" of killing songbirds or chicks as a result of her report.