Cuthbert Antony (Tony) Norris (1917-2005) was born in Worcestershire and educated at Monkton Coombe, Bath, and the London School of Printing. In 1936 he joined the family printing firm, Hudson & Son, in Birmingham.

Norris organised the first national inquiry into the distribution and status of the corn crake, 1938-1939, and helped found the Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory off the North Wales coast, 1953. He was president of the British Trust for Ornithology, 1961-1964 and a member of the West Midland Bird Club (formerly the Birmingham Bird Club), serving as secretary, chairman and president. He published Notes on the Birds of Warwickshire in 1947, West Midland Bird Distribution Survey in 1951 and The Birds of Bardsey in 1952.

Obituaries of Norris were published in The Times, Mar 2005, and British Birds, 98, Jul 2005.