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<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>
Skutch wrote over 40 books and over 200 papers on ornithology, preferring a descriptive style and eschewing statistics and even [[bird ringing|banding]].<ref name=marren>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alexander-skutch-730566.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213190733/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alexander-skutch-730566.html |archive-date=2009-12-13 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title= Alexander Skutch - Old-fashioned naturalist who became the world's foremost expert on Neotropical birds |last=Marren|first=Peter|date= June 14, 2004|work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=Aug 26, 2009}}</ref> He died eight days before his 100th birthday, in the same year that he received the [[Loye and Alden Miller Research Award]]. He is universally regarded as one of the world's greatest ornithologists.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://
==Selected publications==
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