John James Audubon
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John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictori
Portrait by John Syme, 1826
La Gerbetière, mansion owned by Audubon's father in Couëron, where young Audubon was raised
Plate 41 of The Birds of America by Audubon, depicting ruffed grouse
John James Audubon, Long Haired Squirrel, c. 1841.
The Birds of America
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The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections be
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…yet romantic) illustrations, which were engraved in Scotland and England for a large-format (double-elephant folio) color-plate (intaglio) book titled The Birds of America (1827–1838), and five volumes of accompanying text entitled Ornithological Biography (1831–1839). Audubon's scientific contributions were considerable…
The cover shows a Louisiana heron, Egretta tricolor (now called tricolored heron)
Plate 1 by John James Audubon depicting a wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).
Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), now extinct
The fourth volume, on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.