Alexander Skutch: Difference between revisions

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==Biography==

 

 

<blockquote>A lifelong [[vegetarian]], Skutch grew corn, [[yucca]] and other crops, and, without running water until the 1990s, bathed and drank from the nearest stream. He believed in "[[Simple living|treading lightly on the mother Earth]]". With his wife Pamela, daughter of the English naturalist, botanist, and [[orchidologist]] [[Charles H. Lankester]], whom he married in 1950, and their adopted son Edwin, he stayed there for the rest of his life.</blockquote>

 

 

 

* 1970 – ''The Golden Core of Religion''. Holt, Rinehart and Winston: New York. {{ISBN|0-03-085082-7}}

* 1976 – ''Parent Birds and Their Young''. (Corrie Herring Hooks series, No.2). University of Texas Press: Austin. {{ISBN|0-292-76424-3}}

* 1977 – ''A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America''. (Corrie Herring Hooks series, No.3). University of Texas Press: Austin. {{ISBN|0-292-70722-3}}

* 1979 – ''The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America''. University of Florida Press: Gainesville. {{ISBN|0-8130-0579-5}}

* 1983 – ''Birds of Tropical America''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). (Corrie Herring Hooks series, No.5). University of Texas Press: Austin. {{ISBN|0-292-74634-2}}

* 1984 – ''Aves De Costa Rica''. (Illustrated by John S. Dunning). Editorial Costa Rica: San Jose. {{ISBN|9977-23-108-7}}

* 1985 – ''Life Ascending''. University of Texas Press: Austin. {{ISBN|0-292-70374-0}}

* 1985 – ''Life of the Woodpecker''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). Ibis Publishing: Santa Monica. {{ISBN|0-934797-00-5}}

* 1987 – ''A Naturalist Amid Tropical Splendor''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). University of Iowa Press. {{ISBN|0-87745-163-X}}

* 1989 – ''Life of the Tanager''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). Comstock Publishing: Ithaca. {{ISBN|0-8014-2226-4}}

* 1991 – ''Life of the Pigeon''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). Comstock Publishing: Ithaca. {{ISBN|0-8014-2528-X}}

* 1996 – ''Antbirds and Ovenbirds: Their Lives and Homes''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). University of Texas Press: Austin. {{ISBN|0-292-77705-1}}

* 1996 – ''Orioles, Blackbirds, and Their Kin: A Natural History''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). University of Arizona Press. {{ISBN|0-8165-1601-4}}

* 1997 – ''Life of the Flycatcher''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). University of Oklahoma: Norman. {{ISBN|0-8061-2919-0}}

* 1999 – ''Helpers at Birds' Nests: A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior''. (Illustrated by Dana Gardner). (2nd expanded edition). University Of Iowa Press. {{ISBN|0-87745-674-7}}

 

==Skutch Award==

 

==References==

 

==External links==

*[http://www.focusonnature.com/SkutchFeature.htm Alexander Skutch, a Naturalist in Costa Rica]

*[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1899701 NPR: Alexander Skutch Remembered]

*[http://www.avesdecostarica.org/ Asociacion Ornitologica de Costa Rica]

 

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[[Category:20th-century American zoologists]]

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