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    John Kirk Townsend (August 10, 1809 – February 6, 1851) was an American naturalist, ornithologist and collector. Townsend was a Quaker born in Philadelphia...
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    sharp tup. This bird was named after the American ornithologist, John Kirk Townsend. Although Townsend is also credited with first describing this bird...
    16 KB (822 words) - 02:56, 17 January 2024
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    Washington and western Oregon. Townsend's chipmunk is named after John Kirk Townsend, an early 19th-century ornithologist. A large chipmunk, adults can...
    3 KB (304 words) - 04:51, 6 September 2024
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    at the larger end. The name of this bird commemorates the ornithologist John Kirk Townsend. BirdLife International (2018). "Myadestes townsendi". IUCN...
    6 KB (497 words) - 19:47, 4 April 2024
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    MacGillivray's warbler (category Taxa named by John Kirk Townsend)
    by John James Audubon in honor of Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray, although the proper credit to its discovery goes to John Kirk Townsend. The...
    10 KB (334 words) - 08:50, 21 October 2023
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    specific name proposed by John James Audubon). This individual was collected on May 11, 1833, by Audubon's colleague John Kirk Townsend in New Garden Township...
    31 KB (1,749 words) - 10:39, 31 January 2024
  • Barbara Mearns (category Scottish ornithologists)
    400 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) (See John Kirk Townsend.) Pemberton, John E. (1997). Who's Who in Ornithology. Buckingham Press. p...
    7 KB (643 words) - 04:46, 4 May 2024
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    Deppe and ornithologist John Kirk Townsend. A few more specimens were collected through 1841, and after an extensive search by ornithologist Robert Cyril...
    4 KB (405 words) - 23:19, 22 October 2023
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    American bushtit (category Taxa named by John Kirk Townsend)
    was originally described in 1837 by American naturalist and ornithologist John Kirk Townsend, where he reported that the species inhabited the forests of...
    17 KB (1,524 words) - 07:52, 31 July 2024
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    Black-throated gray warbler (category Taxa named by John Kirk Townsend)
    warblers. The black-throated gray warbler was first described by John Kirk Townsend from a specimen collected near today's Portland, Oregon. It was known...
    19 KB (1,956 words) - 08:14, 17 January 2023
  • Y Z This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also Category:Ornithologists. John Abbot – US Clinton Gilbert...
    30 KB (3,015 words) - 19:43, 16 September 2024
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    The Birds of America (category John James Audubon)
    work were collected by Audubon himself; some were sent to him by John Kirk Townsend, who had collected them on Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's 1834 expedition...
    45 KB (4,490 words) - 18:23, 11 September 2024
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    of which some were based on specimens collected by fellow ornithologist John Kirk Townsend on his journey across America with Thomas Nuttall in 1834 as...
    80 KB (9,887 words) - 19:41, 7 September 2024
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    Audubon's warbler (category Taxa named by John Kirk Townsend)
    "N&MA Classification Committee: Proposals 2010-A" (PDF). American Ornithologists' Union. p. 11. Retrieved 8 August 2014. "Online bird guide, bird ID...
    8 KB (957 words) - 01:24, 24 June 2024
  • concept of genus for plants John Kirk Townsend (1809–1851), American ornithologist who collected animal specimens for John James Audubon Thomas Stewart...
    165 KB (20,781 words) - 15:28, 11 September 2024
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    Chestnut-collared longspur (category Taxa named by John Kirk Townsend)
    The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Calcarius...
    11 KB (436 words) - 18:03, 16 October 2023
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    " Halley went on to list prominent naturalists such as John James Audubon, John Kirk Townsend, Charles Bendire and William Bartram who engaged in behavior...
    24 KB (2,267 words) - 16:08, 2 February 2024
  • William Gambel (category American ornithologists)
    take a more southerly route than that taken in 1834 by Nuttall and John Kirk Townsend. Upon reaching Independence, Missouri, he joined a group of traders...
    9 KB (1,118 words) - 19:28, 28 July 2024
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    Mountain plover (category Taxa named by John Kirk Townsend)
    breeding grounds each spring with rain. In 1832 American naturalist John Kirk Townsend spotted a species of unknown bird near the Rocky Mountains, and assumed...
    14 KB (2,100 words) - 14:44, 30 December 2023
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    specimen collected from Chester County, Pennsylvania by John Kirk Townsend and described by John James Audubon in 1834. The specimen is housed in the National...
    28 KB (2,544 words) - 13:20, 14 July 2024
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