George Edwards

George Edwards (April 3, 1694 in Stratford, London - July 23, 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".

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  Noctua minina, the Little Owl
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  The black and white Indian starling
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  The summer duck of Catesby
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  The Greater Cat-Fish. Edwards was the first to describe the Puffadder shyshark Haploblepharus edwardsii (1760)
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  The Dodo and The Guiney pig
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  The red-throated huming [humming] bird (Archilochus_colubris) (1743)