John Legg

John Legg was an English amateur ornithologist and early researcher into migration. He has been identified by A C Smith as the true author of A discourse on the emigration of British Birds, a 1780 work which is perhaps the first to accurately and with some detail outline the modern theory of migration. Smith (1894) tells us that there is little known about his life but provides some details. He was born around 1765 and never married.