Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index William Swainson (October 8, 1789 - December 6, 1855), was an English ornithologist and artist. He travelled to Brazil in the 1820s and collected several birds new to science. He was a friend of John James Audubon. In 1840 he emigrated to New Zealand. Audubon named Swainson's Warbler after him, Charles Lucien Bonaparte named Swainson's Hawk for him, and Swainson's Thrush was also named for him. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.