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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 James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Maria Martin
American artist
Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
American naturalist and explorer
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
Frank M. Chapman
Frank M. Chapman
American ornithologist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
Hudson, W.H.
W.H. Hudson
British author, naturalist, 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
Jean Theodore Delacour
French aviculturist
Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Alexander Wetmore
American ornithologist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
John Gould
British ornithologist
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
Pallas, engraved portrait
Peter Simon Pallas
German naturalist
Emil Holub
Bohemian naturalist