Angela Kepler

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 Hawaiʻi and a doctorate from Cornell University, New York in 1972. She also undertook a one-year post doctoral position 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 ''(Setophaga angelae)'', a Puerto Rican endemic; and the extinct Hawaiian rail ''Porzana keplerorum''.

She has a farm on Maui and grows some 32 different banana varieties. Provided by Wikipedia