The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

The villages that have comprised Lower Providence Township since the early eighteenth century include Evansburg, Shannonville ( now called Audubon ), Eagleville, and Providence Square.

John James Audubon called this subspecies the Great American Shrike in his book Birds of America.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the term in an English source is in John W. Audubon's Western Journal of 1849 ; Audubon recalls that he and his associates were derided and called " Gringoes " while passing through the town of Cerro Gordo, Veracruz.

John James Audubon called this bird the " Buff-breasted Merganser " in his book The Birds of America.

# A Special Place-Professor Sir Alec Jeffries of Leicester University in England develops DNA profiling and schlieren photography used by Theodore von Karman to study aerodynamics and Anthony Fokker's airborne machine guns and the Red Baron and geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen and Johann Gottfried Herder's Romantic ideas that start in Italy and paintings of actors and lighthouses and the War of Jenkins ' Ear and Spanish gold and Alexander Monro and William Cheselden's skeleton drawings and astronomical poetry by friends of fishing affiscinados who write books and Charles Cotton and skeptical wine-drinkers called Michel Eyquem, and Edward Jenner's cure for smallpox and J. J. Audubon and American bird painters and devious Russian real estate deals, --- and as a result in 1872, America gets a special place, the first national park, Yellowstone.

This collection was so extensive that John James Audubon, in a visit in 1833, called it " The finest private collection in North America.

For example, The Hippy Gourmet TV show has featured the Performing Animal Welfare Society ( PAWS )- the nation's largest wild animal sanctuary, the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, California that demonstrates how we can live and flourish on solar and wind power, the Monterey Bay Aquarium-that teaches about sustainable aquaculture to feed a growing planet, the Buckminster Fuller Institute-which is an organization that is committed to a successful and sustainable future for 100 % of humanity, and the National Audubon Society-focused on preserving natural habitats and wildlife.

It further designates the Audubon Parkway as a future spur ( I-X69 ) of I-69 once necessary upgrades are completed.

Genevieve on April 6, 1811, as Audubon decided to work at ornithology and art, as well as to return to Lucy and their son.

After a short stay in Cincinnati to work as a naturalist and taxidermist at a museum, Audubon with his gun, paintbox, and assistant Joseph Mason, traveled south on the Mississippi.

Though he could not afford to buy Wilson's work, Audubon used it to guide him when he had access to a copy.

Though he did not use oils much for his bird work, Audubon earned good money painting oil portraits for patrons along the Mississippi.

With his wife's support, in 1826 at age 41, Audubon took his growing collection of work to England.

The cost of printing the entire work was $ 115, 640 ( over $ 2, 000, 000 today ), paid for from advance subscriptions, exhibitions, oil painting commissions, and animal skins, which Audubon hunted and sold.

It houses the world's largest collection of Audubon memorabilia and one of the most extensive collections of his work.

The publisher which Beebe chose for his work was George Witherby and Sons of London, as a result of their success publishing the artwork of John James Audubon.

The University of Glasgow, which owns a copy of the work describes John Gould as ‘ the greatest figure in bird illustration after Audubon ’, and auctioneers ‘ Sotherans Co .’ describe ‘ Birds of Great Britain ’ as ‘ Gould's pride and joy ’.

As a boy, Grinnell had avidly read Ornithological Biography, a seminal work by the great bird painter John James Audubon ; he also attended a school for boys conducted by Lucy Audubon.

Yarnold's leadership plan with Audubon is to align its conservation work along migratory flyways, the “ superhighways in the sky ” that millions of birds travel each spring and fall.

The Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Nature Conservancy have regularly given him high marks and various awards for his work on conservation issues.

The designation is bestowed by Audubon International to “ communities that integrate an ecosystem approach to construction and management ; and provide environmental education for those that live, work and recreate in the community ,” according to the governing body ’ s written materials.

Klum has had several wildlife documentaries shown on Swedish national TV and has also had his work featured in Wildlife Conservation, Audubon, Geo, National Geographic, Terre Sauvage, Stern, Der Spiegel and the New York Times among others.

John James Audubon painted the pigeons, including the watercolour in his work Birds of America, published in the early 19th century.

Audubon had a particularly strong influence on Kelly ’ s work throughout his career.

Notable features that are on or are easily accessible from the trail route include Wallum Lake, the French River ( Massachusetts ), Hodges Village Dam, Buffumville Lake and dam, the historic Ryder Tavern, Moose Hill, Sampson's Pebble, the ruins of an early 20th century work camp for prisoners with tuberculosis, Barre Falls Dam, the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wachusett Meadows and Burncoat Pond sanctuaries, Mount Wachusett ( the most prominent peak in eastern Massachusetts ), the Crow Hills ( a popular rock climbing destination ), Muddy Pond ( an attractive, remote, and undeveloped glacial pond ), and Mount Watatic, the southernmost prominent summit in the Wapack Range of mountains ( sometimes referred to as the Pack Monadnock Range ).

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Great Auks by John James Audubon, from The Birds of America

Plate 41 of Birds of America by John James Audubon, depicting Ruffed Grouse

* The homestead Mill Grove in Audubon, PA is open to the public and contains a museum presenting all his major works, including Birds of America.

* Souder, William ( 2005 ) Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America.

* Small, E., Catling, Paul M., Cayouette, J., and Brookes, B. Audubon: Beyond Birds: Plant Portraits and Conservation Heritage of John James Audubon, 2009.

* " National Audubon Society " The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley, ISBN 0-679-45122-6

* 1827 – J. J. Audubon begins publishing Birds of America.

* J. J. Audubon begins publishing Birds of America.

This was published in 1887 in a series Hints to Audubon Workers: Fifty Birds and How to Know Them in Grinnell's Audubon Magazine.

Organizations were started in many countries and these grew rapidly in membership, most notable among them being the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) in Britain and the Audubon Society in the US.

* Robert Havell, Jr. ( 1793 – 1878 ), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon ’ s monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of the Hudson River School

In his classic " Birds of America ," John James Audubon describes the slight gradations in hyoid horn length found in different species of living woodpeckers.

* Audubon Center for Birds of Prey

He is honored in the downtown with nine cast-bronze sculptures based on paintings from his Birds of America series, at the John James Audubon State Park and Museum.

The Audubon Society was started to protect birds from the growing trade in feathers in the United States while the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds began in Britain.

The BTO saw the potential to produce scientific results through the networks, unlike the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) which like the Audubon Society originated from the bird protection movement.

The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds.

John James Audubon illustrated the Merlin in the second edition of Birds of America ( published in London, 1827 – 38 ) as Plate 75, under the title, " Le Petit Caporal – Falco temerarius ".

* Terres, John K. & National Audubon Society ( NAS ) ( 1991 ): The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds.