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  1. Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon. [1] Biography. Early life.

  2. Who Was Alexander Wilson? When the Wilson Ornithological Society was founded in the late nineteenth century, it was named in honor of Alexander Wilson, who lived from 1766 to 1813 and is sometimes credited as “the father of American ornithology.”

  3. Apr 16, 2024 · Alexander Wilson was a Scottish-born ornithologist and poet whose pioneering work on North American birds, American Ornithology, 9 vol., (1808–14), established him as a founder of American ornithology and one of the foremost naturalists of his time. During his early years in Scotland he wrote.

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  4. May 20, 2019 · Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology | Ornithology | Oxford Academic. Journal Article. Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology. by Edward H. Burtt, Jr. and William E. Davis, Jr. 2013. . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. , Cambridge, MA, USA, and London, UK. . 464.

  5. Jan 8, 2018 · More than two centuries ago in the swamps of North Carolina, ornithologist and author Alexander Wilson squatted to sketch a yellow-green bird with a neat black cap flitting about above him, catching insects. Wilson had always favored descriptive names for birds, so he called this one the “Green Black-capt Flycatcher.”.

  6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32b6vm.6. Toward the end of 1805, maybe as late as 1806, Alexander Wilson took his first tentative steps toward publication of his American Ornithology when he concluded that he had mastered the skills needed to complete his portrayal of America’s birds.

  7. May 29, 2018 · Wilsons background was so remote from scientific interests that his emergence in the last five years of his life as an ornithologist, and as founder of the science in America, is one of the most remarkable aspects of his extraordinary career.

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