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About the Author: Louis A. Stimson

Few people, indeed, have had such field experience with birds in the wilderness of south Florida as has accrued to author Louis A. Stimson since he came to Miami in 1925. Over these 28 years his frequent birding trips have often taken him deep into remote and trackless areas which are now the Everglades National Park. His courage and good judgment constantly staving off the serious misadventures which lurk in every wilderness situation, he has enjoyed rich adventures with birdlife there, and drunk deep of the beauty and peace of the wilderness.

This keen amateur ornithologist was born at Hope, North Dakota, in 1891. As a child he voyaged to Truk of the Carolina Islands where his father was a missionary. Returning after a year or two, however, he finished his grade schooling and began high school at Northampton, Massachusetts. He finished high school as head boy at the Manlius Schools in New York and went to college in Ohio at OberIin. An early interest in birds must have stimulated him to take a spring course in ornithology there under Professor Lynds Jones his first year. As a sophomore he took a six-weeks ecology summer course with Professor Jones, camping out in Ohio and Ontario, and as a senior he acted as a field assistant in the general ornithology course.

At the organization meeting of the Miami Audubon Society, subsequently known as the Miami Bird Club and now as the Dale Ornithologists, June 17, 1939, author Stimson was elected its first chairman. He has served this organization in various capacities and since December 10, 1950 has been its permanent chairman. As field leader for this group he has organized and reported Christmas bird counts at the Loop Road and Tamiami Trail for ten years. He has published nine articles and 12 notes on south Florida birdlife, and he has contributed numerous unpublished notes to compilations by other authors.

Author Stimson met Dorothy Swinnerton at Lake Bantam, Connecticut, and they were married June 15, 1918. Mrs. Stimson has shared many of her husband~s wilderness trips and enjoys with him also the many surprises and pleasures of backyard bird watching.