# Richard Weatherly

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{{Short description|Australian environmentalist}}
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'''Richard Weatherly''' [OAM](/source/Order_of_Australia) (born 1947) is an Australian environmentalist and artist specialising in [natural history](/source/natural_history) subjects, especially birds.

Weatherly spent his childhood on a [sheep and cattle station](/source/sheep_station) in western [Victoria](/source/Victoria%2C_Australia).  While he was studying at [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University) he began his career as a wildlife artist with an exhibition of [wood carving](/source/wood_carving)s at the Moreland Gallery in London in 1969.  After solo exhibitions in London, and travels in [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe) where he assisted in wildlife research, he returned to Australia where he became the Foundation President of the Society of Wildlife Artists of Australasia.<ref name=rw>[http://www.richardweatherly.com.au/Artist%27s%20Notes.htm Richard Weatherly – the artist]</ref><ref name=fw>Schodde, Richard. (1982). ''The Fairy-Wrens. A Monograph of the Maluridae''. Lansdowne Editions: Melbourne. {{ISBN|0-7018-1051-3}}.</ref>

From 1977 to 1981 Weatherly undertook extensive fieldwork in Australia and [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea) with ornithologist [Richard Schodde](/source/Richard_Schodde), visiting the habitats of, and studying, all species of [malurid wrens](/source/Maluridae), in preparation for an important monograph.  This work, with the text by Schodde and illustrations by Weatherly, was published in 1982.<ref name=fw/>

In the early 1990s he was invited by the [ANARE](/source/Australian_National_Antarctic_Research_Expeditions) to participate in the Ecosystem Monitoring Project for the [Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources](/source/Convention_for_the_Conservation_of_Antarctic_Marine_Living_Resources).  Consequently, he spent several months based at [Mawson Station](/source/Mawson_Station) in [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica), setting up the research project and studying [Adelie penguin](/source/Adelie_penguin)s.<ref name=rw/>

As well as travelling extensively, Weatherly lives and works at Connewarran in western Victoria, the area where he was brought up.  He served as inaugural Chairman of Watershed 2000 a project which involves the wider community in the management of their catchment area, part of which is the restoration and management of 800,000 ha of habitat to act as a 200&nbsp;km connection between the [Otway Ranges](/source/Great_Otway_National_Park) and the [Grampians Ranges](/source/Grampians_National_Park) in western Victoria.  He is an Honorary Associate in [ornithology](/source/ornithology) at the [National Museum of Victoria](/source/Museum_Victoria).<ref name=rw/>

==External links==
* [http://www.richardweatherly.com.au/ Richard Weatherly]

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