Jack Hyett was an Australia

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, author

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, naturalist

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 and amateur ornithologist

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. He was born in Ballarat, Victoria

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. He was Foundation President of the Victorian Ornithological Research Group

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 and the Ringwood Field Naturalists Club. He served as editor of the Emu

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, the journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

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 1965-1968. In 1985 he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion

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As well as numerous journal and magazine articles, books authored by Hyett include:

• 1959 - A Bushman's Year. F.W. Cheshire: Melbourne.
• 1961 - A Bushman's Harvest. F.W. Cheshire: Melbourne.