Alexander Frank Skutch, US-born Costa Rican ornithologist and philosopher (Baltimore, Maryland 20 May 1904 – San Isidro del General 12 May 2004)
Son in law of naturalist Charles H. Lankester
Recognized as the world’s foremost expert on Neotropical birds of Central America
Authored over 200 papers and 40 books
ACHIEVEMENTS
Studied life habits for about 300 bird species
Presented the diversity of reproductive rates among species
Demonstrated that the procreation of tropical birds is slower than that of the same families in the Northern Hemisphere
Explained the differences in size between litters of Neotropical and northern birds
Discovered cooperative brooding (1935)
Defined associations and interactions that some animal species establish with their environment
Collected plant species unknown to science in Central America
HONORS
Skutchia Pax & K. Hoffmann 1937 (Plantae)
Skutchia Willis 1968 (Aves)