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Edward Howland Burtt served as Professor of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Former Chair of the National Audubon-Ohio committee on Important Bird Areas. He is Coauthor of Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology, author of The Behavioral Significance of Color, and others.
Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson’s unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson’s pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds...