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Vote: | Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. |
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Vote: | Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. |
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Vote: | I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though. |
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Vote: | I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. |
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Vote: | My father said you can't make a living in birds... my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant. |
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Vote: | Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. |
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Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996), a naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, is held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement. He was born in Jamestown, New York. In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide. The Guide to the Birds went through 5 editions. He edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He is known for the clear illustrations of his field guides and the clear delineation of relevant field marks. He also developed the Peterson Identification System.
Peterson received every major American award for natural science, ornithology, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary medals, diplomas, and citations, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher.
"In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide."
Peterson died in 1996 at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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