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Obituary: Alexander Skutch; Old-fashioned naturalist who became the world's foremost expert on Neotropical birds.(Obituaries)
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Byline: Peter Marren
ALEXANDER SKUTCH, the naturalist and writer, has been described as one of the most famous unknown men in science. From 1935 until his death just a week short of his 100th birthday, he lived in a remote valley in Costa Rica where he lived self-sufficiently and studied and wrote about wildlife, especially birds.
He wrote some 40 books and over 200 papers on birds and his life in the rain forests of Central America, all in a warm, unfashionably graceful, and often poetic style. He disliked statistics, and based his bird studies purely on detailed ...
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