Stuart Chambers (ornithologist)


Stuart Chambers is a New Zealand ornithologist. He has been associated with ornithologists Charles Fleming, A. H. Hooper, Ross McKenzie and R.B. Sibson. He is the author of Birds Of New Zealand – Locality Guide and New Zealand Birds – An Identification Guide. He has been involved with the Miranda Naturalists' Trust as well as the development of the Miranda Shorebird Centre, the Aroha Island Ecological Centre, and is a proponent of the development of birdwatching in New Zealand. Chambers is the owner and manager of the small New Zealand-based publishing company Arun Books.
Books authored and published:
Bird books
Novels
  • Waiparu – 2009
  • Season of the sheep – 2009
  • Under the Fiji sun – 2009
  • The Reluctant Gardener – 2010
  • Hamna Kabisa – The Tanzanian Joke – 2012
  • The Par-Rem Kids – 2012
  • Pidgeon Place – 2023
Other
  • The Farmers Way – 2015
  • The Way of the Farmer – 1977