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Also Known As John Thomas Miner
Born April 10, 1865 • Ohio
Died November 3, 1944 (aged 79) • Canada
Subjects Of Study bird • migration
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
John Muir
John Muir
Scottish-born American naturalist
Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Flannery, Tim
Tim Flannery
Australian zoologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey
American zoologist
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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Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède
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Spencer Fullerton Baird
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Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
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John Gould
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Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
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