Guy Mountfort OBE (4 December 1905 – 23 April 2003) was an English advertising executive, amateur ornithologist and conservationist.
[1] Born in London, Mountfort was the writer of the 1954 A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps by Philip Hollom.
In 1956, he led an expedition to the Coto Donana with the resulting Book Portrait of a Wilderness illustrated by Eric Hosking.
In 1963, he led a party of naturalists[3] and including Huxley,[3] George Shannon[4] James Ferguson-Lees[4] and D. Ian M. Wallace[4] which made the first ornithological expedition to Azraq in Jordan.
[4] The expedition's recommendations eventually led to the creation of the Azraq Wetland Reserve and other protected areas.