Guy Tudor
Guy Adwill Tudor III (born September 28, 1934 in New York City ) is an American ornithologist , conservationist and illustrator of birds and butterflies .
Life
Tudor is the son of Charles William and Anna Margaret Tudor, née Matthews. His father was the artistic director of the editorial team of Life magazine from 1949 to 1962 . After studying at Princeton University from 1952 to 1954 and at Yale University from 1954 to 1955, Guy Tudor served in the United States Army from 1958 to 1960 . Tudor is an autodidact whose ornithological and illustrative work contributes to preserving nature and the diversity of the bird world.
He has created field guide illustrations depicting a large part of the neotropical avifauna . His studies come from a combination of field notes, face-to-face observation, photographs, and museum collections of bird species. He directed, organized and helped illustrate the panels for a number of field guides on the Neotropics, including A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela (1978, with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee and William Henry Phelps ) and A Guide to the Birds of Colombia ( 1986). Valued not only for their illustrations but also for their eloquent advocacy for the preservation of nature, these guides are recognized as scientific works for research ecologists.
Tudor worked as an illustrator on The Birds of South America , a four-volume standard work written in collaboration with Robert S. Ridgely . The first volume, Oscine Passerines , was published in 1989 and the second volume, Suboscine Passerines , in 1994. Birds of Venezuela was published in 2002 (with Steven Leon Hilty and John A. Gwynne) and in 2005 Butterflies of the East Coast : To Observer's Guide . In 2010 the book Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil was published in collaboration with John A. Gwynne, Robert S. Ridgely and the Wildlife Conservation Society and in 2016 the sequel Birds of Brazil: The Atlantic forest of southeast Brazil , including São Paulo & Rio de Janeiro .
Tudor is president of the New York City Butterfly Club, an organization he co-founded in 1984, and is the director of the North American Butterfly Association.
In 1990 Tudor was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in graphic design, illustration and conservation. In 1995 he received the Eisenmann Medal from the Linnaean Society of New York (LSNY).
literature
- Nicholas Hammond: Modern Wildlife Painting. Pica Press, 1998, ISBN 187-340-355-0 , p. 234.
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| SURNAME | Tudor, guy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tudor, Guy Adwill III (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ornithologist, conservationist, and illustrator of birds and butterflies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |