His father William Edwin Brooks had been a keen ornithologist in India but growing up in a farming household in Canada made his entry into the career of bird art much more difficult than for his contemporary Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the United States of America.
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He later studied the birds of Ontario where his father William Edwin Brooks had settled to a farming life.
William Edwin Brooks (July 30, 1828, near Dublin, Ireland - January 18, 1899, Mount Forest, Ontario) was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist.
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His third son Allan Brooks, named after Hume, became an ornithologist and artist of repute.
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