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Also Known As Florence Augusta Merriam
Born August 8, 1863 • Locust Grove • New York
Died September 22, 1948 (aged 85) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Margaret Morse Nice
American ethologist and ornithologist
Hudson, W.H.
W.H. Hudson
British author, naturalist, and ornithologist
Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm
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Robert Stroud
Robert Stroud
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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
Roger Tory Peterson
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Baird, Spencer Fullerton
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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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John Gould
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Newton, Alfred
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David Lambert Lack
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William F. Friedman
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Clark Howell
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Walter Knott
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Charles Sumner Greene
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Vitaly Komar
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Maria Jolas
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Thomas Goddard
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Charles Gordone
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