Born in Boston, November 10, 1859, Charles Wendell Townsend, M.D. was attracted by the natural beauty of Ipswich. He built a summer house on a ridge overlooking a wide expanse of salt marsh with open sea to the east. From here he wrote a number of books, including Beach Grass, Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes, and the Birds of Essex County. Wendell was a charter member of the Essex County Ornithological Club, a member of the Boston Society of Natural History and at the time of his death, a director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Sand Dunes And Salt Marshes is available through Amazon.com
Thanks to Kellscraft.com for text and pictures from Wendell’s book, Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes, which you can read with the following links, or by flipping the pages in the embedded book below.
- SAND DUNES
- TRACKS AND TRACKING
- VEGETATION IN THE DUNES
- LAND BIRDS OF THE DUNES
- SWALLOW ROOSTS AND SWALLOW MIGRATION
- WATER BIRDS SEEN FROM THE DUNES
- THE HARBOR SEAL
- SALT MARSHES
- SALT MARSHES — THEIR PAST AND FUTURE
- BIRDS OF THE SALT MARSHES
- THE HORSESHOE CRAB AND OTHER DENIZENS OF SAND AND MUD
- BIRD GENEALOGY
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