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Born August 28, 1908 • Jamestown • New York
Died July 28, 1996 (aged 87) • Connecticut
Notable Works “A Field Guide to the Birds”
Subjects Of Study bird • conservation

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Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
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