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Pete Dunne (author)

American author and ornithologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ7171940 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pete Dunne (born September 16, 1951) is an American author who writes about natural history and birding. He is also the founder of the World Series of Birding, as well as the former director of the Cape May Bird Observatory, Birding Ambassador for the New Jersey Audubon Society, and former publisher of New Jersey Audubon magazine. His articles have appeared in most major American birding publications, including Birder's World, Birding, Bird Watcher's Digest, and WildBird, as well as in The New York Times. In 2001, he received the Roger Tory Peterson Award from the American Birding Association for lifetime achievement in promoting the cause of birding.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pete Dunne (author)” as american author and ornithologist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951. The account is most persuasive where Pete, Dunne and author can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american author and ornithologist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7171940. VIAF identifies the subject as 265568219. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pete Dunne (author)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.