Sally Hoyt Spofford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American ornithologist
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1914
Place of Birth: Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 26-Oct-2002
Profession: ornithologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Sally Hoyt Spofford
- Sarah Hoyt Spofford (née Foresman; April 11, 1914 – October 26, 2002) was an American ornithologist who was long associated with the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
- In retirement she was involved in conservation and birding in Arizona, known as the "doyenne of southern Arizona's birding community".
- She authored some 50 articles on bird behavior and co-authored the books Enjoying Birds in Upstate New York (1963) with O.
- S.
- Pettingill Jr.
- and Enjoying Birds Around New York City (1966) with Pettingill and R.
- S.
- Arbib Jr.
- She was a member of the American Ornithologists' Union from 1940 onward.
- Born Sarah Elizabeth Foresman in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, she received a BA degree from Wilson College in 1935 and her MS degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1936.
- In 1948 she received her PhD in ornithology from Cornell University, where she met and married fellow ornithologist John Southgate Hoyt.
- Her husband died in 1951, and from 1955 to 1969 Hoyt worked in various administrative positions at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, being called the de facto manager.
- In 1964 she married ornithologist Walter R.
- Spofford, a specialist on raptors.
- Sally and Walter made several research trips, including Africa and Alaska, and after retiring from Cornell the two moved to Portal, Arizona, where their ranch became a popular wildlife watching area, featured in several bird-watching guides and attracting up to 6,000 visitors per year.
- Walter died in 1995, and Sally died in Tucson in 2002: the two are buried in a small cemetery near Paradise, Arizona.
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