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'''Bernard William Tucker''' ([[22{{death January]]date [[1901]]and - [[age:1950|12|19 December]] [[1950]]|1901|01|22}}) was an [[England|English]] [[ornithologist]]. He was lecturer in [[zoology]] at [[Oxford University]], a long-time editor of [[British Birds (Magazine)|British Birds]] and one of the authors of ''[[Handbook of British Birds|The Handbook of British Birds]]''. He was the first Secretary of the [[British Trust for Ornithology]] (BTO) and founder of the [[Oxford Ornithological Society]] in 1921.

Tucker was born at [[Northaw]], [[Hertfordshire]] and was educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], gaining first class honours in 1923. He spent 1924 at the Zoological Gardens in [[Naples]] investigating parasitism in [[crustacean]]s. In 1925 he was appointed Demonstrator in the Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge. In 1926 he became Demonstrator in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University.