Summary: I am in the process of writing a couple of reviews of new field guides and wanted to look up Richard Pough who wrote my beloved Audubon Land Bird Guide and Audubon Water Bird Guide So I did a Google search and at the top was a New York Times obituary he died four years ago this month Richard Pough was one of the founders and the first president of The Nature Conservancy says Through his long career which included stints at the National Audubon Society and the American Museum of Natural History Mr Pough pronounced poe also wrote a series of Audubon guides on birds helped to get a law banning the sale of wild bird feathers became one of the first to warn of the dangers of DDT established several important preservation groups and inadvertently established the house finch population of the eastern United States How was he connected with establishing the House Finch in the East Sunday June 8 2008 I am in the process of writing a couple of reviews of new field guides and wanted to look up Richard Pough who wrote my beloved Audubon Land Bird Guide and Audubon Water Bird Guide So I did a Google search and at the top was a New York Times obituary he died four years ago this month Richard Pough was one of the founders and the first president of The Nature Conservancy says Through his long career which included stints at the National Audubon Society and the American Museum of Natural History Mr Pough pronounced poe also wrote a series of Audubon guides on birds helped to get a law banning the sale of wild bird feathers became one of the first to warn of the dangers of DDT established several important preservation groups and inadvertently established the house finch population of the eastern United States How was he connected with establishing the House Finch in the East Sunday June 8 2008
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