Nicholas Hammond is an English ornithologist and author, and a former director of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. He was editor of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' Birds magazine, and later its director of communications. He has written a number of books on, and speaks about, wildlife art.
Hammond undertook three stints as editor of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) magazine Birds, from volume 1 number 7 â vol. 5 no. 5 (November/December 1966âÂÂSeptember/October 1974); vol. 6 no. 6 â vol. 6 no. 9 (Spring-Winter 1977) and vol. 10 no. 3 â vol. 11 no. 1 (Autumn 1984-Spring 1986). He also served as the charity's director of communications.