David B. Wingate

David Balcombe Wingate OBE, is an ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist. He was born in Bermuda. In 1951 he helped Robert Cushman Murphy and Louis S. Mowbray re-discover a bird species thought extinct since the 1620s, the Bermuda petrel or cahow. This spurred him on to study Zoology at Cornell University, returning to take on the challenge of saving the cahow in 1958.