Phil Hockey
Philip Anthony Richard Hockey was a well-known South African ornithologist. He was director of the Percy [FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology] at the University of [Cape Town], co-editor of Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa and co-author of Sasol Birds of Southern Africa. Hockey was born in Bournemouth, England in 1956 and moved to South Africa in 1979. His doctoral study was on the African oystercatcher. He focused on shorebirds, writing the book Waders of Southern Africa. Hockey observed 885 different species of birds in Southern Africa.