Barbara Crawford Mearns (born 12 May 1955 in Greenock, Renfrewshire)[1] is a Scottish naturalist, known as a co-author, with her husband, of biographies of ornithologists.
Since 1985 she has been a member of the A Rocha Trust,[4] an international Christian environmental organization that maintains study centers in Canada, Kenya, Portugal, France and the Czech Republic, among other locations.
[7] From 1997 to 2002, Mearns coordinated the UK office and communications work of this organization, and she was an administrator at A Rocha International from 2002 to 2017, when she retired.
[4] In 2022, a revised edition of Biographies for Birdwatchers: The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names was published in two volumes.
[citation needed] Barbara Mearns has participated in many British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) surveys.