Annie Meinertzhagen (2 June 1889 – 6 July 1928)[1] was a Scottish ornithologist who contributed to studies on bird migration and was a specialist regarding waders and ducks, especially their moulting patterns.

She collected the first Scottish autumn specimens of the yellow-browed warbler and was the first ornithologist to demonstrate that the Icelandic race of the common redshank (Tringa totanus robusta) visits Britain.

[1] In the further course of her ornithological studies she travelled to Copenhagen in 1921, to Egypt and Palestine in 1923, to Madeira in 1925, and to India in the winter of 1925–26, when she joined her husband in an expedition to Sikkim and southern Tibet hunting birds and mammals in the Himalayas.

[7] Annie Constance Meinertzhagen left £113,466 (net personalty £18,733) in her will to her husband if he should remain her widower and if he re-married he was to get an annuity of £1,200 and interest in their London home for life.

[7] Richard Meinertzhagen's diary entry for 1 August 1928 reads: ”I have not written up my story for some weeks not because I have had nothing to say but because my heart has been too full of sorrow my soul too overwhelmed with unhappiness.

I heard a shot behind me and saw my darling fall with a bullet through her head.”[5]Brian Garfield comments, in his exposé of Richard Meinertzhagen's life and character:[7] ”To those who believe that Annie’s death was no accident, the circumstantial evidence seems persuasive.