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bird watching/birding
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: bird watching/birding
- From: "Jean R. Hutton" <jeanhutton@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:59:04 -0500
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Below are excerpts from an obituary for G. Stuart Keith which appeared in
the NYT on March 8, 2003:
"...G. Stuart Keith...was a founder of the American Birding
Association...in 1968, Mr. Keith proposed to a dozen enthusiastic
bird-watching friends that they form an association and exchange
information about the numbers of birds they had spotted. This association
eventually became the American Birding Association, as bird-watching was to
be known from then on, and the associations' magazine, which first appeared
in 1969, was titled simply "Birding." "...He was secretary, then
president, of the International Council for Bird Preservation, United
States Section, from 1965 to 1973..." "...with John Gooders, he wrote "The
Collins Bird Guide" a survey of European birds, in 1980. That year he
began his 22-year involvement with "The Birds of Africa" in seven volumes,
written with C. Hilary Fry and Emil K. Urban..." "...when he took up
birding in his youth, the association recalled when it announced his death,
his family did not expect him to live long once he bought his first car,
because he swerved too often so that he could see a bird." (My daughter
commented that the last statement reminded her of many childhood
experiences as a passenger when I was driving.)
Jean R. Hutton
jeanhutton@mindspring.com
Arden, NC