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Died. James Fisher, 58, British ornithologist and conservationist; of injuries received in an auto accident; in London. Britons knew him as a sort of apostle for bird watching who kindled their interest through more than 700 radio programs, 200 TV appearances and 27 books. American bird watchers remember his Wild America, which he co-authored with Roger Tory Peterson, an account of their field trip in 1953, during which Fisher logged 601 different species of birds in 100 days...
...removed from the New Left's idea of community control. He has somewhat complicated his Viet Nam position by arguing that U.S. troops there should be volunteers. He is also a serious ecologist who has made expeditions to the Arctic and once considered becoming an ornithologist. The environmental crisis, he believes, is one issue that the Federal Government must tackle itself...
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Roger Tory Peterson, D.Sc., ornithologist and author. In a threatened world suddenly aware of its own mortality, you have long been a prophet of the interrelate dness of all living things...
HAVERFORD COLLEGE Richard H. Pough, LL.D., ecologist and ornithologist...
Before tree specialists stopped using hard pesticides like DDT to combat the elm disease, insecticide killings of birds were apparently common in Cambridge. Charles F. Walcott, a retired physician and amateur ornithologist, recalls seeing three insect-eating species-the robin, hermit thrush, and flicker-in "typical DDT convulsions" on his property off Sparks Street...