John James Audubon was an American ornithologist, artist and naturalist known for his studies, drawings and paintings of North American birds.
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and plantation owner and his French mistress. Early on, he was raised by his stepmother, Mrs. Audubon, in Nantes, France, and took a lively interest in birds, nature, drawing, and music. In 1803, at the age of 18, he was sent to America, in part to escape conscription into the Emperor Napoleon’s army. He lived on the family-owned estate at Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, where he hunted, studied, and drew birds, and met his wife, Lucy Bakewell. While there, he conducted the first known bird-banding experiment in North America, tying strings around the legs of Eastern Phoebes; he learned that the birds returned to the very same nesting sites each year.
John James Audubon was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson’s work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists.
Although Audubon had no role in the organization that bears his name, there is a connection: George Bird Grinnell, one of the founders of the early Audubon Society in the late 1800s, was tutored by Lucy Audubon, John James’s widow. Knowing Audubon’s reputation, Grinnell chose his name as the inspiration for the organization’s earliest work to protect birds and their habitats. Today, the name Audubon remains synonymous with birds and bird conservation all over the world.
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and plantation owner and his French mistress. Early on, he was raised by his stepmother, Mrs. Audubon, in Nantes, France, and took a lively interest in birds, nature, drawing, and music. In 1803, at the age of 18, he was sent to America, in part to escape conscription into the Emperor Napoleon’s army. He lived on the family-owned estate at Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, where he hunted, studied, and drew birds, and met his wife, Lucy Bakewell. While there, he conducted the first known bird-banding experiment in North America, tying strings around the legs of Eastern Phoebes; he learned that the birds returned to the very same nesting sites each year.
John James Audubon was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson’s work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists.
Although Audubon had no role in the organization that bears his name, there is a connection: George Bird Grinnell, one of the founders of the early Audubon Society in the late 1800s, was tutored by Lucy Audubon, John James’s widow. Knowing Audubon’s reputation, Grinnell chose his name as the inspiration for the organization’s earliest work to protect birds and their habitats. Today, the name Audubon remains synonymous with birds and bird conservation all over the world.
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| American Crow |
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| American elk |
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| American White Pelican |
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| Bartram's Vireo |
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| Bemaculated Duck |
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| Black Vulture Or Carrion Crow |
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| Blue Geai |
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| Blue Jay |
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| Canada Jay Corvus Canadensis |
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| Cardinal Grosbeak |
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| Carolina Turtle Dove |
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| Collared Peccary |
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| Cuvier's Kinglet |
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| Douglas's Squirrel |
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| Eastern Bluebird |
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| Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis |
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| Ferruginous Mocking Bird |
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| Fox Squirrel |
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| Great American Beck Male Wild Turkey |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Great Cinereous Owl |
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| Great Horned Owl |
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| Greater Flamingo |
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| Green Heron |
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| grey fox |
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| Large Billed Puffin |
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| Louisiana Heron |
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| Mallard Duck |
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| Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Northern Flicker |
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| Northern Hare (Winter) |
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| Northern Mockingbird |
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| Otter Caught in a Trap |
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| Passenger Pigeon |
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| Pileated Woodpecker. |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Roseate Spoonbill |
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| Snowy Heron Or White Egret |
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| Snowy Owl |
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| The Bald Headed Eagle |
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| The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America |
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| Townsend's Bunting |
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| Tricolored Heron |
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| Tropic Bird |
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| Trumpeter Swan |
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| Virginian Opossum |
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| Washington Sea Eagle |
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| White Heron |
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| Whooping Crane |
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| Wild Turkey, Cock, Hen and Young |
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| Wolverine |
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| Yellow Billed Cuckoo |
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