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A painting titled "cardinal grosbeak" - a bird now called Northern cardinal - is among the 435 color plates in "The Birds of America," the masterwork of John James Audubon.

Birds of the First Light and Longhouses: The Prints of John James Audubon also looks at the positive side, as many avian species populations are growing in the North East.

In 1827, when John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” first went to print, a copy of the massive book was worth what would amount to $30,000 today.

For decades, scholars have wondered what happened to naturalist John James Audubon's first commercial illustration, of a small bird called a heath hen. In 1824, the engraving was destined to ...

ALBANY -- The stunning avian colors in John James Audubon's life-size color lithographs have been clouded by smoke from the 1911 Capitol fire and a century of benign neglect, but the valuable bird ...

John James Audubon was a complicated guy who left behind a fraught legacy. Bird lovers are probably familiar with his great gift, the famous “The Birds of America,” a four-volume series of ...

On Dec. 3, 1827, an engraving changed the world of ornithology forever. Robert Havell Jr. of Edinburgh made the engraving, which was based on a painting by a man who had bet his career on its ...

The Internet has gone to the birds today, with a Google doodle honoring the 226th birthday of John James Audubon, famed naturalist and painter. Born April 26, 1785, Audubon is credited with ...

The John James Audubon Center is the perfect place for bird aficionados to learn more of the many winged creatures that live among us and about the man who spent his life documenting them, reports ...

John James Audubon, renowned for his knowledge of the American wilderness was equally adept at the quintessential American activity of self-invention. After unsuccessful attempts at various ...

The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to 1838, catalogued more than 400 birds in life-size prints.