[TN-Bird] Re: [ALBIRDS] Alexander Skutch - 1904 - 2004
- From: "Chris Sloan" <chris.sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:32:23 -0500
This is truly sad news. When Kevin Calhoon and I along with two others
went to Costa Rica last February, one of our stops was Los Cusingos (Dr.
Skutch's home, which is now a preserve and a spectacular birding spot).
One of the highlights of our trip was getting to meet the legend
himself. Even though he could barely hear and was unable to get around
on his own, once he heard we were from Tennessee he asked us about some
of the wood warblers that breed in Tennessee and winter in his backyard.
We were all in such awe of him that none of us dared even ask him to
autograph our field guides (which he co-wrote)!
He'll be missed, but his ornithological legacy will far outlive him and
probably most of us too.
Chris Sloan
Nashville, TN
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> Subject: [ALBIRDS] Alexander Skutch - 1904 - 2004
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> Dr. Alexander Skutch passed away yesterday at his home in=20
> Finca Los Cusingos=20
> here in Costa Rica, a week short of his 100th birthday. =20
> Memorial services=20
> will be held tomorrow morning in San Isidro de El General=20
> followed by a burial=20
> service at Los Cusingos.=20
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> When I read this on another list serve, my eyes turned to one=20
> of my bookcases=20
> and I counted 9 books by Skutch. I don't know how many times=20
> I have gone to=20
> these books for information or the times I have scanned=20
> through them just to=20
> get the feel of his writing and rekindle or reemphasize the=20
> need to just sit and=20
> watch. Now, whenever I retrieve a book from that shelf, I=20
> will feel sad to=20
> think that this fountain, to which I have turned time and=20
> again to quenched my=20
> thirst, has issued its last.=20
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> I will always count myself blessed though, for years ago, out=20
> of the blue,=20
> Ben and Lula Coffey gave me a copy of "Bird Student, An=20
> autobiography by George=20
> Miksch Sutton." Ben knew that I liked to sit for long periods=20
> and observe so=20
> he introduced me to this quiet and clear eyed distiller of=20
> bird behavior. For=20
> years now, Woodpeckers and Tanagers, are just a few species=20
> that flew from the=20
> pages of his many species accounts and filled me with awe and wonder.=20
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> Somewhere, in a far corner of a Costa Rican forest, a Bellbird tolls.
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> Good Birding!!!
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> Jeff R. Wilson
> OL'COOT / TLBA
> Bartlett, TN
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> PS, In the autobiography, his birth year is given as 1898 but=20
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> article in Living Bird said he would be 100 in May. Whatever,=20
> but what a long and=20
> productive life, he worked on to the last.
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