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Alice Hall Walter
b. 1869
A keen early bird watcher and nature writer, she helped bring the pleasures of bird study into everyday city life. Her best-known work invites readers to spot migrating birds in Chicago's parks with curiosity and care.
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Wild Birds in City Parks Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago
by Herbert Eugene Walter, Alice Hall Walter
About the author
Alice Hall Walter was an American nature writer born in 1869. She is best known as the co-author, with Herbert Eugene Walter, of Wild Birds in City Parks, a practical guide to identifying birds seen during spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago.
Her work focused on making bird study approachable for ordinary readers, especially people discovering wildlife in urban settings rather than far from home. Surviving records also show her corresponding with Theodore Roosevelt about bird observations and comparative study, which suggests how seriously she pursued field observation as well as popular writing.
Although only a small amount of biographical information is easy to confirm, her writing still stands out as an early and welcoming contribution to American birding literature.