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Born September 26, 1890 • Paris • France
Died November 5, 1985 (aged 95) • Los Angeles • California
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Baird, Spencer Fullerton
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Newton, Alfred
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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John James Audubon
John James Audubon
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Hudson, W.H.
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Fairchild, David
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Mayr, Ernst
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Maria Martin
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Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
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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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Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
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Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
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Addison Emery Verrill
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John Bartram
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Alexander Wetmore
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Charles Atwood Kofoid
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Frank M. Chapman
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André Michaux
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Elliott Coues
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