Robert Simeon Arbib Jr. (March 17, 1915 – July 20, 1987) was an American ornithologist, writer and conservationist. From 1970 to 1984 he was editor of ''American Birds,'' the magazine of the

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, and was the author of several books on birds and nature, including ''The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland,'' which was awarded the

John Burroughs Medal The John Burroughs Medal, named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural hist ...

for the best American nature book of 1972. Arbib was born in

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, and raised in

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to Edna and Robert Arbib Sr. His father was an importer who had emigrated from Cairo, and his brother

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became a noted automotive designer. He graduated from

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in 1937 and served in the Army during World War II, where he was stationed mainly in France and England and wrote for the London '' Daily Express''. He was married to Renee Johnson on August 25, 1946.

Books

* * (with Tony Soper) * (with Olin Sewall Pettingill Jr. and

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) *

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