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When bird feeders open for business, as every amateur naturalist quickly learns, other critters often show up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

German naturalist Carl Gustav Carus carried out the first scientific studies of pyrophilous fungi in the 1830s, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The unusual behavior first came to light after amateur naturalist Eviatar Itzkovich noticed huge swirling groups of isopods during summer nights in the Golan Heights.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

González developed her classic yet defiantly modern approach while studying at the University of Seville, where Spanish masters such as Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán painted in the naturalist Baroque tradition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

The belemnite, it turned out, had been discovered four years earlier by an amateur naturalist named Chaning Pearce, and the discovery had been fully reported at a meeting of the Geological Society.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Ojai has long been home to Theosophists, avant-gardists, potters and naturalists joining other outsiders and mystics with a whim for wonder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Before Lamarck, naturalists saw organisms as passive, depending on supernatural intervention for their merest actions as well as their very existence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

In their publication, the team writes, "His passion and dedication to wildlife education and conservation have inspired naturalists and conservationists worldwide, including the authors of the paper."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2025

Scientists and amateur naturalists have observed a remarkable range of species not usually widespread in UK waters, including octopus, bluefin tuna and mauve stinger jellyfish.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025

Heavy mortality has occurred among about 90 species of birds, including those most familiar to suburbanites and amateur naturalists.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson