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.

John James Audubon, shown here c. 1861, was an artist who specialized in painting the birds of America. He discovered a way to mount freshly killed specimens on sharpened wires set into gridded ...

Peter Logan ’75 focuses on John James Audubon’s Labrador period in his biography, Audubon: America’s Greatest Naturalist and His Voyage of Discovery in Labrador. Logan will return to his alma mater ...

John James Audubon life and career timeline. 1785 Born in Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) to Captain Jean Audubon and Jeanne Rabine, his French chambermaid. 1788 Sent to Nantes, France ...

A BIOGRAPHY of John Audubon has already been published this year and it was a perfectly competent one, ... John James Audubon by Richard Rhodes. By Roy Herbert. 15 December 2004 ...

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 ...

For better and worse, the name Audubon has become almost synonymous with birds. The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to 1838 ...

John James Audubon, the pioneer field biologist and great bird artist of his time, who created the incomparable anthology "Birds Of America", is seen in this January 1951 photo, taken from an 1851 ...

By the time Kenn Kaufman finished the research for his upcoming book on early North American ornithology, his view of John James Audubon, history’s most famous birder and the central figure in ...