Des McKenzie,
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | London based birder since mid-1970s (joined YOC in 1976). Inner London bird recorder 1997-2008 (London Natural History Society). Have birded in Europe, North America, New Zealand and Africa (Japan in October 2012). Founder of The London Moth Group. Keen London lister (currently 273 species). |
| Interests | Daughter. Ornithology (particularly that of the London recording area). Lepidoptera. Natural history in general (including Astronomy). Music (play guitar for The Allotment Society when the beers flow). Arsenal FC. Art. Current affairs. |
| Favorite movies | Not a great movie fan but enjoyed 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gorky Park, Clockwork Orange, Naked Lunch, Rising Damp (the movie), The Life of Brian, Sin City, Carry On and Ealing comedies and anything starring Christopher Walken. |
| Favorite music | Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Traffic, Broadcast, The Pentangle, Wire, The Beatles, Neil Young, John and Alice Coltrane, Small Faces, Tame Impala, The Kinks, The Who (up to 1979), The Creation, Marvin Gaye, Paul Weller (complete career), Erland and the Carnival, Bob Dylan, The Move, John Lee Hooker, Dr. John, Nick Drake, Kate Rusby, early Pink Floyd, The Buzzcocks, Immediate/Sue/Chess and Blue Note artists, Stravinsky (paticularly The Rite of Spring), Debussy, and Joby Talbot. |
| Favorite books | Birds of the Western Palearctic (Cramp), Ecological Isolation in Birds (Lack), The Groundwater Diaries (Tim Bradford), A Spaniard in the Works (John Lennon), The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, George Orwell, Ken Kesey, Colin MacInnes, Jack Kerouac, Eric Newby. |