Charles K. (Charles Keller) Reed

Born in 1851, Charles Keller Reed was an American naturalist, taxidermist, publisher, and writer based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Records from the Biodiversity Heritage Library identify him as the author of bird-related works, and archival material at the American Museum of Natural History shows that his papers are preserved alongside those of his son, the ornithologist Chester A. Reed.

Reed is especially associated with practical books on birds for general readers, including Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific. His publishing work focused on natural history, particularly birds, and helped make identification and observation more accessible outside academic circles.

He is also remembered through his family's role in American ornithology. A Wikipedia entry on Chester A. Reed describes Charles Keller Reed as a taxidermy business owner and places him at the center of the environment in which his son developed an early interest in birds and natural history. Charles K. Reed died in 1921.