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Sálim Ali
Sálim Ali
Indian ornithologist, naturalist, and conservationist
Margaret Morse Nice
Margaret Morse Nice
American ethologist and ornithologist
Hudson, W.H.
W.H. Hudson
British author, naturalist, and ornithologist
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Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist
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Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm
American author
Robert Stroud
Robert Stroud
American criminal and ornithologist
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
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
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John Gould
British ornithologist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
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David Lambert Lack
British author and ornithologist
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Alexander Wetmore
American ornithologist
Frank M. Chapman
Frank M. Chapman
American ornithologist

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