George Hines Lowery Jr. (October 2, 1913 – January 19, 1978) was an American ornithologist and professor of zoology at Louisiana State University, who pioneered a technique for studying nocturnal bird migration by large-scale observation through telescopes across the United States of America of flocks of birds as they flew at night in front of the face of the moon.
George was born in Monroe, Louisiana, where his parents encouraged an interest in the natural world.
He also made collection trips, some funded by the McIlhenny family, and he collaborated with Josselyn Van Tyne.
They recruited a number of amateur astronomers to collaborate and produce quantitative estimates of bird migration by direct observation.
[3] This was his doctoral research topic and he developed it with his students S. A. Gauthreaux and Robert J. Newman.