Famous naturalist John James Audubon "did despicable things" and supported his work by buying and selling enslaved people — and that's according to the organization that bears his name.

John James Audubon’s watercolour of two passenger pigeons, one of his best, captures a moment so intimate that, in truth, we should not be there to witness it: two birds sharing food, their ...

“The National Audubon Society is still in the process of a comprehensive exploration of John James Audubon and has not yet made a decision about our name.” Audubon isn’t the only name ...

John James Audubon was born in Haiti and moved to France with his father when he was a young boy. When war broke out in ...

John James Audubon's past should disqualify him from having his name attached to every Audubon society. By the Editorial Board of the Seattle Times. August 2, 2022 at 10:35PM. Comment.

American naturalist John James Audubon, pictured in an undated painting, was an enslaver. The National Audubon Society has considered a name change for more than a year, with the Seattle chapter ...

The National Audubon Society announced on Wednesday that its board of directors had voted to retain the organization’s name despite pressure to end its association with John James Audubon, the ...

John James Audubon had his paintings made into 435 prints, which could be sold to subscribers in a series of sets, then eventually bound into the project we know as “The Birds of America.” ...

National Audubon Society, pressured to drop enslaver’s name, keeps it. Three board members resigned after the prominent bird conservation group decided against shedding its ties to John James ...

The painting's artist was John James Audubon. Born in Haiti in 1785, the illegitimate son of a sugar plantation owner, he had dedicated his life to his work as a self-taught artist and ornithologist.

Spoiler alert: John James Audubon didn't bunk in the tiny room on Oakley House's second floor. Never mind that this was the story told to countless visitors and school kids on field trips from the ...

S etting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not ...