Mark Catesby (March 24, 1682/83 – December 23, 1749) is an English naturalist.

Between 1729 and 1747 Catesby publishes his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America.

It includes two hundred and twenty plates of birds, reptiles and amphibians, fish, insects, and mammals, as well as plants,