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Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

Roger Tory Peterson

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Roger Tory Peterson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 28
Died: 1996
Died: July 28
Artist
Ornithologist
Painter
Zoologist
Jamestown
New York
Better
Butterflies
Butterfly
Birds
Bird
Health
Environment
Science
May
Indicators

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Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.
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The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote it is our moral duty to take care of them.
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Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
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Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
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Birds are an ecological litmus paper.
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Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about it works.
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I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though
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The more you look, the more you will see.
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