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Wildlife Photographer Peter Beard Found Dead Near His Home

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - Artist, adventurer and celebrated wildlife photographer
   Peter Beard was found dead in woods near his cliff-side home at the tip
   of Long Island nearly a month after his family reported him missing. He
   was 82.

   "He died where he lived: in nature," his family said in a statement
   posted on Beard's website Sunday night.

   In recent years, the once-swashbuckling explorer had developed dementia
   and had at least one stroke, according to the New York Times. His
   family confirmed that a body found Sunday in Camp Hero State Park in
   Montauk was Beard's.

   Beard's cause of death was not immediately released by officials. A
   phone message was left with East Hampton Police.

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