Kenneth E. Stager

Kenneth E. Stager (January 28, 1915 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania – May 13, 2009 in West Los Angeles) was an American ornithologist who served as a curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

In 1958, Stager visited Clipperton Island and saw that the breeding colonies of brown boobies and masked boobies were being devastated by feral pigs that had been introduced to the island by earlier travelers. To protect the booby populations, Stager personally shot and killed every pig on the island, for a total of 58; the booby populations subsequently recovered.

Stager's actions served to inspire the ecological group Island Conservation, which focuses on removing introduced species from islands.

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