Ian Newton OBE FRS FRSE (born 17 January 1940) is an English ornithologist.
Newton was born and raised in north Derbyshire and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School.
in 1982 from the University of Oxford,[2] and has studied a wide range of bird species.
[3] As a teenager he became particularly fascinated by finches and undertook doctoral and post-doctoral studies on them.
[5] Before retirement, he was Senior Ornithologist at the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council.