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Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, illustrator and educator, and one of the founding inspirations for the 20th-century environmental movement.^[1]

Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York, a small, industrial city in western New York, on August 28, 1908. His father, Charles Gustav Peterson, was an immigrant from Sweden who came to America as an infant. At the age of ten, Charles Peterson lost his father to appendicitis and was sent off to work in the mills. After leaving the mills, he earned his living as a traveling salesman. Roger's mother, Henrietta Badar, was an immigrant, at the age of four, of German and Polish extraction, who grew up in Rochester, New York. She went to a teachers' college, and was teaching in Elmira, New York, when she met Charles. The two married, and moved to Jamestown, where Charles took a job at a local furniture factory.^[2]

Roger's middle name honors his Uncle Tory who was living in Oil City, Pennsylvania, south of Jamestown. He graduated from high school in 1925 and went to work in one of Jamestown's many furniture companies. One of his high school teachers, Miss Hornbeck, had encouraged his sketching and painting of birds and nature while he waited to earn enough money to buy a camera. Several months after graduating, he traveled to New York City to attend a meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, where he met distinguished figures such as the artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes and up-and-comers like Joseph Hickey.

Soon after, he moved to New York City and earned money by painting furniture, so that he could attend classes at the Art Students League in 1927-1929^[3] and later at the National Academy of Design. He also managed to gain entrance to the eventually famous Bronx County Bird Club, though not himself from the Bronx. He hoped to attend Cornell University, but his family's finances were not sufficient for the cost of tuition. Instead, he managed to obtain a position as an art instructor at the Rivers School in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1934, his A Field Guide to the Birds was published. The initial run of 2,000 copies sold out within a week.

Peterson was married three times: Briefly, to Mildred Washington. For 33 years, to Barbara Coulter, with whom he had two sons. And for 20 years, to Virginia Westervelt. His second and third wives contributed to the research and organization of his guides.^[4]

Peterson's first work on birds was an article "Notes from field and study" in the magazine Bird-Lore, where he recorded anecdotally two sight records from 1925, a Carolina wren and a titmouse.^[2]

In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide. It sold out its first printing of 2‚000 copies in one week, and went through six editions. One of the inspirations for his field guide was the diagram of ducks that Ernest Thompson Seton made in Two Little Savages (1903).^[5] He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series, on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks.^[6][7]

Paul R. Ehrlich, in The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Fireside. 1988), said of Peterson:

In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide.^[8]

Peterson was awarded the Linnaean Society of New York's Eisenmann Medal in 1986,^[9] the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom^[10] and the Order of the Golden Ark of the Netherlands. In 1977, he was honored by selection by the two Swedish District lodges of the Vasa Order of America to be Swedish-American of the Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and received honorary doctorates from numerous American universities.^[11]

He died in 1996 at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut.^[10] His remains were cremated and his ashes were spread on and round Great Island near Old Lyme,^[12] and under grave memorials in the Duck River Cemetery in Old Lyme, and in the Pine Hill Cemetery in Falconer, New York.^[13]

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, New York is named in his honor.^[14] In 2000, the American Birding Association established the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Promoting the Cause of Birding.^[15]

A biography, Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Elizabeth Rosenthal, was published in 2008, the centenary of Peterson's birth.^[16]

·         PFG 1: A Field Guide to the Birds (1934), by Roger Tory Peterson

o    Second edition (1939): A Field Guide to the Birds

o    Third edition (1947): A Field Guide to the Birds

o    Fourth edition (1980): A Field Guide to the Birds: A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America

o    Fifth edition (2002): A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America

o    Sixth edition (2010): Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, ISBN 978-0547152462

o    Seventh edition (2020): Field Guide to Birds of Eastern & Central North America, ISBN 978-1328771438

·         PFG ??: Field Guide to Birds of North America (2008), ISBN 978-0618966141

o    Second edition (2020): Field Guide to Birds of North America, ISBN 978-1328771445

·         PFG 1A: Bird Songs (Eastern) (1990)[CD] by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

·         PFG 2: A Field Guide to Western Birds: Field marks of all Species found in North America West of the 100th Meridian, with a Section on the Birds of the Hawaiian Islands (1941), by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson

o    Second edition (1961): A Field Guide to Western Birds: Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian, with a Section on the Birds of the Hawaiian Islands

o    Third edition (1990): A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico

·         PFG 2A: Western Bird Songs (1962) by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

o    Second edition (1992)

·         PFG 3: A Field Guide to Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (1947), by Percy A. Morris

o    Second edition (1951)

o    Third edition (1973)

o    Fourth edition (1995), by R. Tucker Abbott and Percy A. Morris; Photos by R. Tucker Abbott

·         PFG 4A: Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains (1951), by Alexander B. Klots

·         PFG 4B: PFG 4A replaced by A Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies (1992), by Paul A. Opler; Illustrated by Vichai Malikul

o    Second edition (1998)

·         PFG 5: A Field Guide to the Mammals: Field Marks of all North American Species found North of Mexico (1952), by William Henry Burt; Illustrated by Richard Philip Grossenheider

o    Second edition (1964)

o    Third edition (1976)

o    Fourth edition (2006): A Field Guide to Mammals of North America, by Fiona Reid

·         PFG 6: A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Shells, Including Shells of Hawaii and the Gulf of California (1952), by Percy A. Morris

o    Second edition (1966)

·         PFG 7: A Field Guide to the Rocks and Minerals of North America (1953), by Frederick H. Pough and Jeffrey Scovil

o    Second edition (1955)

o    Third edition (1960)

o    Fourth edition (1976)

·         PFG 8: A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1954), by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort, and P.A.D. Hollom

o    Second edition (1965), additional authors: I.J. Ferguson-Lees and D.I.M. Wallace

o    Third edition (19??)

o    Fourth edition (19??)

§  Fourth edition, revised and enlarged (1983)

o    Fifth edition (1993)

o    Sixth edition (2004), ISBN 978-0-00-719234-2

·         PFG 9: Animal Tracks (1954), by Olaus J. Murie

o    Second edition (1974)

o    Third edition (2005), by Olaus J. Murie and Mark Elbroch

·         PFG 10: A Field Guide to Ferns and their Related Families: Northeastern and Central North America with a Section on Species also found in the British Isles and Western Europe (1956), by Boughton Cobb and Laura Louise Foster

o    Second edition (1963): A Field Guide to Ferns, Second Edition: Northeastern and Central North America by Boughton Cobb, Cheryl Lowe, and Elizabeth Farnsworth

·         PFG 11A: A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-central United States and Southeastern and South-central Canada (1958), by George A. Petrides

o    Second edition (1972): A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Field Marks of All Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines That Grow Wild in the Northeastern and North-Central United States

·         PFG 11B: PFG 11A revised as A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada (1988), by George A. Petrides; Illustrated by Janet Wehr

o    First edition, expanded [sic]: A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest (1998)

·         PFG 12: A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of the United States and Canada East of the 100th Meridian (1958) by Roger Conant; Illustrated by Isabelle Hunt Conant

o    Second edition (1975): A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America

o    Third edition (1991), additional author: Joseph T. Collins, and illustrator: Tom R. Johnson

§  Third edition, expanded (1998)

o    Fourth edition, (2016), additional author: Robert Powell

·         PFG 13: A Field Guide to Birds of Texas and Adjacent States (1960), by Roger Tory Peterson; Illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson

·         PFG 14: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North Central North America (1968), by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny

·         PFG 15: A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets (1964), by Donald Howard Menzel; Illustrations by Ching Sung Yu

o    Second edition (19??): by Jay M. Pasachoff, Wil Tirion and Donald Howard Menzel; Additional author: Ching Sung Yu

o    Third edition (1992)

o    Fourth edition (2000)

·         PFG 16: A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians: Field Marks of All Species in Western North America (1966), by Robert C. Stebbins

o    Second edition (1985): A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians: Field Marks of All Species in Western North America, including Baja California

o    Third edition (2003): A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians

·         PFG 17: A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers from Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia (1968), by John Craighead, Ray J. Davis, Frank C. Craighead, and Eduardo Salgado

o    Second edition (1996)

·         PFG 18:This PFG number was used for two field guides.

In 1968 this number was Mammals of Britain and Europe by Van Den Brink. This title was dropped from the series in 1985.

In 1986 This number became Birds of the West Indies by James Bond.

Both of these guides appeared in the Easton Press leather bound copies of the series. For that series the title of the Bond book was changed to "Birds of the Caribbean". ^[9] Birds of the West Indies (1999), by James Bond

·         PFG 19: A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico (1970), by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White

·         PFG 20: Mexican Birds: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador (1973), by Roger Tory Peterson and Edward L. Chalif

·         PFG 21: Eastern Birds’ Nests: The United States East of the Mississippi River (1975), by Hal H. Harrison, Mada Harrison and Ned Smith

·         PFG 22: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Pacific States (1976), by Niehaus and Ripper

·         PFG 23: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America (1977), by Lee Allen Peterson; Illustrated by Lee Allen Peterson and Roger Tory Peterson; Photos by Lee Allen Peterson

·         PFG 24: A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore: Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras (1978), by Kenneth L. Gosner; Illustrations by Kenneth L. Gosner

·         PFG 25: Western Birds’ Nests: The United States West of the Mississippi River (1979), by Harrison

·         PFG 26: A Field Guide to the Atmosphere (1981), by Vincent J. Schaefer and John A. Day; Illustrated by Christy E. Day

·         PFG 27: A Field Guide to Coral Reefs of the Caribbean and Florida: A Guide to the Common Invertebrates and Fishes of Bermuda, the Bahamas, Southern Florida, the ... (1982), by Eugene H. Kaplan; Illustrations by Susan L. Kaplan

·         PFG 28: A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes: The Gulf of Alaska to Baja California (1983), by William N. Eschmeyer, Earl S. Herald, Howard E. Hammann and Katherine P. Smith

·         PFG 29: A Field Guide to Beetles of North America (1963), by Richard E. White

·         PFG 30: A Field Guide to Moths Eastern North America (1984), by Charles V. Covell

o    Second edition (2012)

·         PFG 31: A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers (1984), by Theodore F. Niehaus, Charles L. Ripper and Virginia Savage

·         PFG 32: A Field Guide to Atlantic Coast Fishes of North America (1986), by C. Richard Robins and G. Carleton Ray; Illustrations by John Douglass and Rudolf Freund

·         PFG 33: A Field Guide to Butterflies of Western North America (1986), by Tilden and Smith

o    Second edition (19??): A Field Guide to Western Butterflies by Paul A. Opler and Amy Bartlett Wright

·         PFG 34: A Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America (1987), by Kent H. McKnight and Vera B. McKnight; Illustrations by Vera B. McKnight

·         PFG 35: A Field Guide to the Hawks of North America (1987), by William S. Clark and Brian K. Wheeler

·         PFG 36: A Field Guide to Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores (1988), by Kaplan

·         PFG 37: A Field Guide to the Ecology of Eastern Forests: North America (1988), by John C. Kricher; Illustrated by Gordon Morrison

·         PFG 38: Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America (1989)[cassettes], by Richard K. Walton and Robert W. Lawson

o    Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America (2002) (Audiocassette)

o    More Birding By Ear: Eastern and Central North America: A Guide to Bird-song Identification (2002) by Richard K. Walton and Robert W. Lawson (Audiocassette)

·         PFG 39: Advanced Birding (1990), by Kenn Kaufman

·         PFG 40: A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants: Eastern and Central North America (1990), by Steven Foster and James A. Duke; Illustrated by Lee Allen Peterson, Jim Bleakfeather Rose and Roger Tory Peterson; Photos by James A. Duke

o    Second Edition (1999)

o    Third Edition (2014)

·         PFG 41: Birding by Ear: Western (1990)[CD], by Walton and Lawson

·         PFG 42: A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America North of Mexico (1991), by Lawrence Page and Brooks Burr; Illustrations by Eugene C. Beckham, III, John Parker Sherrod and Craig W. Ronto

o    Second edition (2011): Illustrations by Eugene C. Beckham, III, John Parker Sherrod, Justin T. Sipiorski and Joseph R. Tomelleri; Maps by Griffin E. Sheehy

·         PFG 43: Backyard Bird Song (1991)[CD], by Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson and Roger Tory Peterson

·         PFG 44: A Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and Canada (1992), by George A. Petrides; Illustrated by Olivia Petrides

·         PFG 45: A Field Guide to the Ecology of Western Forests (1993), by John C. Kricher and Gordon Morrison (See PFG 50 and 51)

·         PFG 46: A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants of North America North of Mexico (1994), by Roger Caras and Steven Foster

·         PFG 47: More Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central (19??) by Walton and Lawson

·         PFG 48: A Field Guide to Geology: Eastern North America (1996), by David C. Roberts; Illustrations by W. Grant Hodson This field guide originally appeared in print with the PFG number 47 on the spine. It was later changed to 48.

·         PFG 49: A Field Guide to Warblers of North America (1997), by Jon Dunn, Kimball Garrett, Sue A. Tackett and Larry O. Rosche

·         PFG 50: Revision of (part of) PFG 45 as: A Field Guide to California and Pacific Northwest Forests (1998), by John C. Kricher and Gordon Morrison

·         PFG 51: Revision of (part of) PFG 45 as: A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests (1998), by John C. Kricher and Gordon Morrison

Other volumes:

·         PFG ??: Revision of (part of) Fourth edition of PFG 1 as: A Field Guide to Feeder Birds: Eastern and Central North America (2000), by Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson, and Noble Proctor

·         PFG ??: A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America (2001), by Sheri L. Williamson

·         PFG ??: A Field Guide to the North American Prairie (2004), by Ruth Carol Cushman and Stephen R. Jones

·         PFG ??: Mammals of Britain and Europe (1968, 1986), by F. H. van den Brink

·         PFG ??: Peterson Reference Guide to Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds (2015), by Kevin T. Karlson and Dale Rosselet

·         PFG ??: Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America (2015), by Vladimir Dinets

·         PFG ??: Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean (2015), by Scott Weidensaul

·         PFG ??: Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America (2016), by Stephen Shunk

·         PFG ??: Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America (2016), by Jesse Fagan and Robert Dean; Illustrated by Robert Dean and Peter Burke

·         PFG ??: Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America (2017), by Nathan Pieplow

Appweavers, Inc.,^[10] the licensee of the Peterson field guides for mobile devices, has developed the Peterson Birds of North America^[11] and Peterson Feeder Birds of North America^[12] apps for mobile Apple products. The Peterson Birds of North America app also includes some content from other books in the Peterson field guide series. The app is no longer available on iTunes.

1.     ^ Conant, Roger; and Collins, Joseph. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998 pp viii, xii.

2.     ^ "A Book-collector's Guide to Roger Tory Peterson | Roger Tory Peterson Institute". Rtpi.org. 2011-11-25. Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2012-02-28.

3.     ^ "In Memoriam: Roger Conant (1909-2003) With Reflections By Some of Roger's Many Friends and Colleagues - Science News". redOrbit. 2004-08-12. Retrieved 2012-02-28.

4.     ^ Burt, William H; and Grossenheider, Richard P. A Field Guide to the Mammals of North America North of Mexico. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co; 1976. p vi.

5.     ^ Jump up to:^a b c "The new Peterson moth guide". Seabrooke Leckie. 2 November 2009. Retrieved 2014-02-24.

6.     ^ "What's New | Virginia Museum of Natural History". Vmnh.net. Retrieved 2014-02-24.

7.     ^ "Peterson Field Guides(R)- Birds". Hmhbooks.com. Retrieved 2014-02-24.

8.     ^ "Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes" Florida Museum of Natural History. flmnh.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-20.

9.     ^ he:קובץ:Birds of the West Indies - James Bond.png

10.  ^ "Appweavers, Inc". Petersonguides.com. Retrieved 2014-02-24.

11.  ^ "Peterson Birds — A Field Guide to Birds of North America on the App Store on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2013-08-09. Retrieved 2014-02-24.

12.  ^ "Peterson Backyard Birds - A Field Guide to Birds of North America on the App Store on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2014-02-24.

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