Honours
- 1951: elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1958: receives Godman-Salvin medal of the British Ornithologists' Union
- 1962–1966: President, International Ornithological Congress
- 1964–1965: President, British Ecological Society
- 1972: Awarded the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society
The centenary of Lack's birth, 16 July 2010, was marked by a 'David Lack Centenary Symposium', hosted by the Edward Grey Institute. A programme of talks focused on and celebrated the scientific contributions of Lack to ornithology, and the broader fields of ecology and evolution, and assessed the development of these fields in the 21st century.
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