John James Audubon didn't establish the Audubon Society, but he did create of America's most iconic works of natural history, 'The Birds of America.' He also had controversial views about vultures.

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.

Looking on with amusement from the deck was white-haired John James Audubon, one day shy of 58. As Omega swung into the current, Audubon studied the dark waters of the Mississippi, on which he had ...

Birders and ornithologists are grappling with John James Audubon’s legacy today, but problematic behavior doesn’t stop at a single 19th-century naturalist.

John James Audubon is best known for The Birds of America, a book of 435 images, portraits of every bird then known in the United States – painted and reproduced in the size of life.

There are also independent organizations that use the name, like Illinois Audubon Society, which has chapters of its own, such as Kane County Audubon. “The name John James Audubon is complex ...

It was in the Keys that John James Audubon found the fascination that Florida had promised. For the naturalist-artist, the allure was the water birds, thousands and thousands of them. Arriving at ...

“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 ...

Before photography, the natural world was captured in paintings and sketches by artists like John Audubon, whose remarkable illustrations of birds have endured for 200 years. One of his contemporaries ...

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 ...