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1888–1969 United States

Elsa Guerdrum Allen (May 19, 1888 – January 29, 1969) was an American ornithologist, lecturer, author and historian of ornithology. She is noteworthy for her 1951 book The history of American ornithology before Audubon.

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The massed flocks of wild ducks appealed as a ready food supply and were easily seen by incoming vessels in the harbors. Land birds, on the other hand, were shy and silent, and at the approach of man slipped without sound deeper into the forest.

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