Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology by William E. Davis, Edward H. Burtt Jr.

Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology

William E. Davis, Edward H. Burtt Jr.

444 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic "American Ornithology" established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length st...

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