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After retirement from the army he became a planter in South India and Ceylon. A year after India's independence, he moved to Kenya and served in the veterinary service in the Western [[Masai]] Reserve. He later moved from Kenya to the [[Isle_of_Mull|Island of Mull]] in Scotland where he spent time studying birds and animals, and in 1967 he moved again to the [[New Forest]]. He died of a stroke when out riding in New Forest in 1973.

During his time in various remote places he studied the local ornithologybirdlife. He was among the first to study and report from the remote Khru valley, the [[Coorg]] district in southern India as well as from parts of northeast India and Africa. While in India he was an active member of the [[Bombay Natural History Society]]. His work in [[Kenya]] led to his major paper on '''The Birds of Masai'''. He also took an interest in orchid cultivation. He became a member of the Hampshire Field Club’s Ornithological section and of the Hampshire Naturalists' Trust. He was Secretary of the New Forest beagles, served on the New Forest Consultative Panel, and was a Treasurer of the Burley Branch of the British legion.

A BBC radioplay called 'The Naga Queen' by John Horsley Denton was based on the life of F.N.Betts and his wife Ursula Betts. [http://www.burmastar.org.uk/nagaqueen.htm]