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Small enhancement on one of the atwoodi entries in the key. If we look here his full name is Jonathan Lee Atwood. I know nothing more about him.

Probaly we can find more in his Ph. D thesis about him.
The gnatcatchers: Polioptila californica, P. melanura and P. nigriceps: species limits, vocalizations, and variation. Unpublished Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1986.
 
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Polioptila californica atwoodi MELLINK & REA 1994 (here):
Etymology. We name this subspecies in honor of Jonathan L. Atwood, who resolved the relationships between the gnatcatcher species Polioptila melanura and P. californica and has contributed so much to the conservation of California Gnatcatchers in the U.S.
It looks like a "Jonathan L. Atwood", is/was still around (at least in March 2016), here, at that point as "Massachusetts State Coordinator-The Bobolink Project".

Surely it must be the same guy ...

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PS. Report of The Bobolink Project 2016, by Jonathan L. Atwood, Bird Observer 44 (No.2), April 2016, pp.89-91 (here).

More about "Jon" himself, on p.91.
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"Jonathan L. Atwood, director of bird conservation at the Massachusetts Audubon Society, said ..." (here, in Nashauonk Mittark, p. 6, from July 2017), Moderator at the American Ornithological Society Annual Conference 2018 (here) ... and onwards

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According here born 1952. So small enhancement to The Key to Scientific Names.

But maybe someone knowns the birth of the other Atwood?

Ara atwoodi A. H. Clark, 1908 OD here
In a book by Thomas Atwood, dated 1791...

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:
Dominican Macaw Ara atwoodi A. H. Clark, 1908 EXTINCT
Thomas Atwood (d.1793) was Chief Judge of Dominica and the Bahamas. e wrote The History of the Island of Dominica (1791). He fell on hard times as he died in the King's Bench prison.

The Key to Scientific Names
Thomas Atwood (d. 1793) Chief Judge of Dominica and the Bahamas, author of “The History of the Island of Dominica” (1791) (syn. Amazona imperialis).
 
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I can't add any birth date but Judge Thomas Atwood was a reprehensible human being - Clark should have done his homework before honouring him. His "True Method of Treatment and Usage of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands" was even considered "over the top" by many anti-abolitionists. His only positive was that his extremist views apparently changed the minds of many Englishmen who were unfamiliar with the particulars of slavery. He died in King Bench Prison in London on 27 May 1793.
 
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