Dr Malcolm Alexander Ogilvie is a British ornithologist and freelance natural history author and consultant.
Until 1997 he was a member of the British Birds editorial board and a member of the editorial board of the handbook The Birds of the Western Palearctic.
He is a past regional representative for the British Trust for Ornithology, and is the vice-county plant recorder for South Ebudes[1] for the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.
Ogilvie has been resident on the island of Islay since 1986.
He is married to Carol and has two daughters, Isla and Heather.