Frank Chapman

Frank Chapman (June 12,1864-November 15,1945) was an American ornithologist from The Audubon Society and the creator of The Christmas Bird Count and writer of field guides

History
Chapman was born in West Englewood,New Jersey on June 12,1864 and attended Englewood Academy.He joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in New York as an assistant to Joseph Asaph Allen in 1888.

On Christmas Day of 1900,Chapman took bird lovers from 13 US states and 2 provinces on the first ever Christmas Bird Count and found 18,500 individuals.The first continental birding network was born.He wrote a few books about birding such as,Bird Life,Birds of Eastern North America,Bird Studies With a Camera and Life in an Air Castle.He was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliott Medal from The National Academy of Sciences for his work,The Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia in 1917

He died in New York City in 1945