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Facts

Born February 3, 1823 • Reading • Pennsylvania
Died August 19, 1887 (aged 64) • Woods Hole • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study bird • mammal • North America

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John Bartram
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Alexander Wetmore
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John James Audubon
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Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
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Frank M. Chapman
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Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
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Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
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Hudson, W.H.
W.H. Hudson
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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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Charles Darwin
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Sálim Ali
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Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
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