Christopher Miles Perrins, LVO FRS[5] (born 11 May 1935)[4][6] is Emeritus Fellow of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford[7] and His Majesty's Warden of the Swans since 1993.
[4][7][8] Perrins was educated at Charterhouse School and Queen Mary College[4] where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology in 1957.
[1] Perrins research interests are in the population dynamics and breeding biology of birds, particularly tits (Paridae),[1][9] mute swans[10][11] and seabirds on Skomer and Skokholm.
[5][15] He supervised several successful DPhil students at Oxford including Matt Ridley[3] and Tim Birkhead.
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