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Facts

Born July 6, 1766 • Paisley • Scotland
Died August 23, 1813 (aged 47) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Notable Works “American Ornithology” • “Watty and Meg”
Subjects Of Study bird • North America

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Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
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John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
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Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
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John Gould
British ornithologist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
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Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
Frank M. Chapman
Frank M. Chapman
American ornithologist
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David Lambert Lack
British author and ornithologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Hudson, W.H.
W.H. Hudson
British author, naturalist, and ornithologist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist
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Maria Martin
American artist
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William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
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Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish zoologist
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Alexander Wetmore
American ornithologist
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Libbie Henrietta Hyman
American zoologist

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