Elliott Coues (September 9, 1842 - December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author. Coues (pronounced Cows) was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He graduated at Columbian University, Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cadet in Washington in 1862-1863, an in 1864 was appointed assistant-surgeon in the regular army.

William Brewster (July 5, 1851 - 1919) was an American ornithologist. Brewster was the curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1886 to 1900. He was the co-founder, with Elliott Coues and Joel Asaph Allen, of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883. He wrote "Birds of the Cape Regions of Lower California" (1902) and "Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts" (1906).

Ludlow Griscom (June 17, 1890-May 28, 1959) was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology. Ludlow Griscom was born in New York City, the son of Clement Acton Griscom and Genevieve Sprigg Ludlow. He was a protege of Frank Chapman, later working for Thomas Barbour at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, eventually becoming curator. In the 1920s and 1930s, he went on several expeditions collected birds in Central and South America.

Dean Amadon (June 5, 1912 - January 12, 2003) was an American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey. Amadon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Arthur and Mary Amadon. He received a BS from Hobart College in 1934 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1947. In 1937 he joined the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and was Chairman of the Department of Ornithology from 1957 until 1973. In 1940, he married Octavia Gardella.

Witmer Stone was an American ornithologist, botanist, and mammalogist, and was considered the last of the “great naturalists.” Stone is remembered principally as an ornithologist. He was president of the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) 1920–23, and was editor of the AOU’s periodical "The Auk" 1912–1936. He spearheaded the production of the 4th edition of the AOU checklist, published in 1931.

Margaret Morse Nice (December 6, 1883 - June 26, 1974) was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the sparrow and was author of "Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow" (1937). Nice was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1906 and M.A. in biology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1915.

Charles Gald Sibley was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had an immense influence on the scientific classification of birds, and the work that Sibley initiated has substantially altered our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern birds. Sibley's taxonomy has been a major influence on the sequences adoped by ornithological organizations, especially the American Ornithologists' Union. He is of no relation to renowned bird artist David Sibley.

Jonathan Dwight (December 8, 1858 - February 22, 1929) was an American ornithologist. Dwight was president of the American Ornithologists' Union from 1923 to 1926.

Daniel Giraud Elliot (March 7,1835 - December 22, 1915) was an American zoologist. Elliot was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the American Ornithologists' Union. He was also curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago. Elliot used his wealth to publish a series of sumptuous color-plate books on birds and animals. Elliot wrote the text himself and commissioned artists such as Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, …

Burt L. Monroe, Jr (25th August 1930 - 14 May 1994, Louisville, Kentucky) was an American ornithologist, a member of the American Ornithologists' Union since 1953, as Director of the Commission of classification and nomenclature (1981-1994) and president from 1990 to 1992.

Austin Loomer Rand (16 December 1905 - 6 November 1982) was a Canadian zoologist. He was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia in 1905 and grew up in nearby Wolfville. He received a Bachelor of Science from Acadia University, an institution which also awarded him an honorary DSc degree in 1961. In 1929, while still a graduate student at Cornell University, he travelled on an expedition to Madagascar as collector of birds. Rand published the results as his thesis for his Ph.D..

Montague Chamberlain (born St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, April 5, 1844; died Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Feb. 10, 1924) was a Canadian-American businessman, naturalist, and ethnographer. He spent the first few decades of his life as a bookkeeper and later manager of a grocery company in St. John. In his mid-twenties, he also became a dedicated amateur ornithologist. In 1883 he co-founded the American Ornithologists' Union, …

Dr. Irene Pepperberg (born April 1, 1949, Brooklyn, New York) is a scientist noted for her studies in animal cognition, particularly in relation to parrots. She is an adjunct professor of psychology at Brandeis University and a lecturer at Harvard University. She is well known for her comparative studies into the cognitive fundamentals of language and communication, …

John Todd Zimmer (Bridgeport, Ohio, February 28, 1889 - White Plains, New York, January 6, 1957) was a leading American ornithologist. A graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he took an early interest in both entomology and ornithology. From 1913 he worked as an agricultural adviser in the Philippines and later New Guinea, during which time he made important collections of bird specimens.

Sidney Dillon Ripley (20 September 1913 - 12 March 2001 ) was an American ornithologist. He was born in New York City. He studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and in 1936 he graduated with a B.A. from Yale University. His great-grandfather, Sidney Dillon, was the founding chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad. A visit to India at age 13, along with his sister, included a walking tour into Ladakh and western Tibet.

Edgar Alexander Mearns was a notable American ornithologist and field naturalist. Mearns was born to Alexander and Nancy Reliance Mearns née Clarswell. His grandfather Alexander was of Scottish origin and moved to Highland Falls in 1815. Edgar Alexander Mearns was educated in the Donald Highland Institute (Highland Falls) and attented the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he gratuated in 1881. In 1881 he married Ella Wittich of Circleville in Ohio.

Walter Edmond Clyde Todd (Smithfield, Ohio, September 6, 1874 - June 25, 1969), generally known as W.E. Clyde Todd, was an American ornithologist. In 1891 Todd abandoned his studies at Geneva College to take up a post as messenger with Clinton Hart Merriam at the United States Department of Agriculture, where his first job was the sorting and cataloging of a collection of bird stomachs preserved in alcohol.

Colonel William Vincent Legge was an Australian ornithologist.

Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin was a Russian ornithologist. A scion of one of the oldest families of Russian nobility, Buturlin spent most his life in Russia. He went to school in Simbirsk (modern Ulyanovsk) and studied jurisprudence in St. Petersburg, but his interest in zoology was so strong that he spent most of his career collecting specimens across Russia and Siberia and describing the results of his observations. Until 1892 he collected in the Volga region, …

(Samuel) Duffield Osborne (June 20, 1858-1917) was an American author. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., son of Samuel Smith and Rosalie Willoughby (Duffield) Osborne; grandson of Samuel and Abbie M. (Theall) Osborne, and of James Murdoch and Margaretha A. (Prince) duffield, and a descendant of George Duffield, who emigrated from Ireland to Pequea Township, Pennsylvania, in 1720, and of Carel de Beauvais, who emigrated from France and settled in New York in 1659.

Carl Peter Holböll was an officer in the Danish Royal Navy. Holböll served as Royal Inspector or Colonies and Whaling and Governor of South Greenland. While in this post he became interested in natural history. He described the Hoary Redpoll, which he named for Jens Wilken Hornemann. At one time the Gyrfalcon and the Red-necked Grebe bore his name. Reclassification necessitated changes in nomenclature, causing Holboell's name to be pushed aside as a species name.

Charles Barney Cory (January 31, 1857 - July 31, 1921) was an American ornithologist. Cory was born in Boston. His father had made a fortune from a large import business, ensuring that his son never had to work. At the age of sixteen Cory developed an interest in ornithology and began a skin collection. Due to his ability to travel anywhere he wished this soon became the best collection of birds of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in existence.

James Bond (January 4, 1900 - February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond. The real Bond was born in Philadelphia and worked as an ornithologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in that city, rising to become curator of birds there. He was an expert in Caribbean birds and wrote the definitive book on the subject: "Birds of the West Indies," first published in 1936 and, …

Dr John Albert Leach was an ornithologist, teacher and headmaster in the state of Victoria, Australia. Leach was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Creswick Grammar School (where he was dux), Melbourne Training College (1890) and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated B.Sc. in 1904, M.Sc. in 1906 and in 1912 obtained his doctorate for research in ornithology.

Andrew John Berger was a notable American ornithologist from the American Museum of Natural History. Berger was born in Warren, Ohio. In 1939 he made his graduation at the Oberlin College. After a study of Game management from 1940 to 1941 he married Edith Grace Denniston in 1942. The couple has two children, one son and one daughter. From 1941 to 1946 he went to the U.S. Air Forces. He finished his military time with a rank of a Major.

Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 - December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. Wetmore was born at North Freedom, Wisconsin and studied at the University of Kansas. He later studied at George Washington University, receiving his masters degree and doctorate. Wetmore began federal service in 1910, working for the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture. In 1915, he researched the use of lead shot in causing death in waterfowl.

Franklin, A. B. , K. P. Burnham, G. C. White, R. J. Anthony, E. D. Forsman, C. Schwarz, J. D. Nichols, and J. Hines. 1999. Range-wide status and trends in northern spotted owl populations. U. S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Corvallis, Oregon. 56pp. Franklin, A. B. , D. R. Anderson, and K. P. Burnham. 1998. Study of long-term trends in the annual probability of survival in North American birds.

Ralph E. Mirarchi was born in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania in 1950 and was raised in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He received the B.S. degree in biology from Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1971. Following employment for 1 year with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, he began studies in wildlife management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Wildlife Biology.

Stuart D. Strahl , Ph.D. Vital Ground Board Member since October 2006 With 25 years in national and international programs, Stuart Strahl is a career conservationist with deep experience in applied science, restoration ecology, public policy and not-for-profit management. He currently serves as President/CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society and Director of the world-famous Brookfield Zoo.

Dr. Enrique H. Bucher Dr. Enrique H. Bucher is Director of the Center for Applied Zoology at the University of Córdoba, Argentina. He also serves as Principal Investigator for CONICET (National Research Council for Science and Technology, Argentina). Dr. Bucher has had a long-term involvement in research and development of the Gran Chaco region of South America, including development of sustainable restoration and production models.

A. SIDNEY ENGLAND , PH.D. , of Davis is an ornithologist and the Director of Environmental Planning for the University of California, Davis. Dr. England is an expert on the ecology of the Swainson’s Hawk, a species listed as threatened in California. In 1997 he co-authored an account on the species in the American Ornithologists’ Union project, The Birds of North America - Life Histories for the 21st Century.

Dr. Glen Woolfenden died following surgery on June 19, 2007. He served the Tampa Audubon Society for over thirty years, participating and leading many Christmas Bird Counts and field trips, giving talks and seminars about birds and especially Florida Scrub-jays, and providing leadership for our Society. Glen was generous in his assitance to Tampa Audubon members and others interested in learning about birds.

Gabriel Picón is now Director of the Parupa Research Station in Venezuela. He is working hard to enhance the reputation of the station and attract researchers. The station has been selected as one of Venezuela's Long Term Ecological Research sites.

Dennis G. Raveling (1939-1991) earned his graduate degrees in zoology from the University of Minnesota (M.S., 1963) and Southern Illinios Universtiy (Ph.D., 1967). He was a research scientists for the Canadian Wildlife Service before joining the faculty of the University of California at Davis in 1971 as professor of wildlife biology. His research centered on investigations of the life history, behavior, and population dynamics of waterfowl, including studies on arctic breeding areas.

John Ogden is currently chief scientist and program manager for the RECOVER Division, Department of CERP Planning (Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan) at the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Prior to coming to work in science policy at the SFWMD in 1995, he worked 16 years as a research scientist at Everglades National Park and 14 years as a research scientist for the Research Department, National Audubon Society, Tavernier, Fla.

James A. Rodgers Jr . , Born 1948 in North Miami, FL. MS from Louisiana State University in 1974, PhD from University of South Florida in 1979. Certified Wildlife Biologist with The Wildlife Society (1986) and Elected Member of the American Ornithologists' Union (1987). Favorite author is Kurt Vonnegut.

Rich Crawford is a professor of biology at the University of North Dakota. He has been at UND since 1975. He teaches ornithology and wildlife ecology, advises graduate students, conducts research, and has been department chair for four years. His research centers mostly on wetland and prairie birds, especially waterfowl, rails, and passerines. He and his students have also conducted research on wetland creation and upland game bird biology in the northern plains.