If you are a birder or an enthusiastic bird watcher, then it may be in your best interest to know that there are a couple of well known personalities that you share this love with. many of the names will be familiar, nevertheless, you might also be in a position to pick up a couple of new names to add to your own list so let us get to know some well-known birders!

Roger Tory Peterson can be considered as one of the fathers of the 20th century environmental movement but his Field Guide to Birds which was published in 1934 which revolutionized the way people see the environment which helped normal people appreciate nature. people began to understand the workings of nature,his work laid a foundation which helped the art of birdwatching evolve, along with wildlife centers.

Kenn Kaufman also comes to mind, a man who at the age of sixteen, hiked through North America finding birds Even today, his passion for birding still exists Three years later when his hike was done Kaufman positively identified 671 species of bird in the area These numbers surpassed the previous record Some of his best works are his field guide series,Lives of North American Birds, and Kingbird Highway.

Of course there are more to mention, and here they areDavid Allen Sibley and Pete Dunne are widely known in the birding community. Sibley is the author and illustrator of the popular and rather comprehensive field guide, Meanwhile, Pete Dunne is a birder and writer he is well known for his writing and his book American Birds.

Here are some of the more famous birders we’ll start with the well respected Sir David Atteborough. One of his latest and quite notable works there is the Life series on the BBC which tackled the survey of all terrestrial life.

Other celebrities include Ian Fleming and yes, the author of the popular James Bond books Taken from the author of a bird book, James Bond has become a trademark name having first been published in 1936 The name Goldeneye which is the name of Fleming’s estate in Jamaica the name also being used for the seventeenth movie

Former President Lincoln was also a bird lover as well and according to one story, he picked up a nest of robin hatchings that fell from a tree and put it back from where it had fallen. Agatha Christie has also been rumored to be a birder and it is reported that she never left home without a good pair of binoculars.

Sir Anthony Galsworthy is also a birder, UK Ambassador to China, Trevor Harrison, Princess Takamado of Japan,Jimmy Carter, Charly Harper, Sir Kenneth Dover, what else do I have to say? So tell your friends about all the famous birders tell them a few of the names in that list, and they’ll have nothing more to say!