Peter McDougall (18 January 1777 – 14 April 1814) was a Scottish physician and naturalist who was the discoverer of the roseate tern (Sterna dougalli).
McDougall was then appointed as a surgeon at the new Glasgow Royal Infirmary but his licence to practise was not renewed in 1810 and he returned to general practice on his own.
[1] McDougall took up collecting natural history objects in his leisure time, sometimes buying them or exchanging specimens with other collectors.
He also occasionally assisted the Director of the Hunterian Museum, Captain James Laskey, in its Anatomy Department, as well as taking an interest in its collection of zoological specimens.
When McDougall picked it up he noted that it looked different from the common terns (Sterna hirundo) he was familiar with, so he requested that his friends shoot some more.