. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Y XetC .et Coues made the most of his stint at Fort Macon. Bogue Banks, he had to admit, was "a good place for field natural ; He did exhaustive studies of shorebirds, marsh birds and seabirds, but hardly confined his curiosity to winged creatures. Before he left in November 1870, Coues had conducted the most thorough survey of animal life on the southern coast, most of it published in a five-part series in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Born Sept. 9,
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Y XetC .et Coues made the most of his stint at Fort Macon. Bogue Banks, he had to admit, was "a good place for field natural ; He did exhaustive studies of shorebirds, marsh birds and seabirds, but hardly confined his curiosity to winged creatures. Before he left in November 1870, Coues had conducted the most thorough survey of animal life on the southern coast, most of it published in a five-part series in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Born Sept. 9, 1842, in Portsmouth, , Coues was a protege of Spencer Baird, the Smithsonian Institution's founder. He had hoped to join his mentor in Washington, , after fieldwork in Arizona and South Carolina. But, like many 19th-century naturalists who were not independently wealthy, he found an Army medical career his only real chance to see the world and make a name for himself. He earned his medical degree at Columbia University in 1863 and stayed in the Army for 17 years. Coues was a prolific writer. While in the Army, he published 300 articles and papers, and he later wrote several landmark texts of natural history. While his far-ranging curiosity led him down some rather eclectic paths — his thousand-page Monographs of North American Rodentia, co-written with Joel Asaph Allen in 1877, comes to mind — Coues gained the greatest acclaim for his Handbook of Field and General Ornithology (1890) and Key to North American Birds (1903), two classics renowned for their accuracy and Coues' beautifully hand-drawn illustrations. When Coues and his wife moved to North Carolina in 1869, 125 enlisted men lived within Fort Macon. Married soldiers resided in six wooden barracks nearby. Coues wrote in an 1870 report for the surgeon general's office that the fort was overcrowded, moldy, lacking proper sanitary facilities and exposed to "shifting winds" that "wafted malaria fro
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