Angela Kepler

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Angela Kay Kepler (born 1943) is a New Zealand-born naturalist and author. She is a graduate of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and has a Master’s degree from the University of Hawaii and a doctorate from Cornell University, New York. She also studied at Oxford University.

She has conducted research in Hawaii, Alaska, Russia and the Caribbean. Two bird species have been named for her, the Elfin-woods Warbler (Dendroica angelae), a Puerto Rican endemic, and the extinct Hawaiian rail Porzana keplerorum.