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About Ivan Carnaby
- Ivan Clarence Carnaby (24 July 1908 – 1974) was an Australian farmer, naturalist and ornithologist.
- He was born in Subiaco, Western Australia.
- He published many papers on Southwest Australian birdlife in Emu, The Western Australian Naturalist and Western Australian Bird Notes.
- He also made several botanical collecting journeys with Henry Steedman.
- He is commemorated in one of the common names of Carnaby's cockatoo, also known as the short-billed black cockatoo, which he described in 1948.
- Carnaby first suggested the existence of more than one kind of white-tailed black-cockatoo in the 1930s, something later confirmed by research.
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