Raymond Duncan (ornithologist)

{{Short description|Scottish ornithologist}}

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Raymond Duncan is a Scottish ornithologist. He is the chairman of Grampian Ringing Group, established in 1977.http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/library/digital-library/nature-societies-online/index.dsml?body_name=Grampian+Ringing+Group&body_id=385&addtomark=385&action=mark&searchBeginIndex=30&baction=listbyalpha&alpha=g {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} He lives in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

Duncan has carried out a number of studies on the migration of several bird species, most notably Bohemian waxwing, which have been colour ringed{{Cite web |url=http://217.158.75.180/webzine/article.asp?a=1981 |title=The vagaries of Waxwing migration |access-date=14 December 2010 |archive-date=4 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704190716/http://217.158.75.180/webzine/article.asp?a=1981 |url-status=dead }} in Aberdeen since the 1980s.

He was awarded the Bernard Tucker Medal in 2008{{Cite web |url=http://www.bto.org/news/news2008/novdec/aberdeen.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-12-14 |archive-date=2010-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105005030/http://www.bto.org/news/news2008/novdec/aberdeen.htm |url-status=dead}} for outstanding service to the British Trust for Ornithology.