* The Carolina Parrot from John James Audubon's Birds of America

* National Gallery of Art: Selections from John James Audubon's The Birds of America ( 1826 – 1838 )

* Audubon's Birds of America, podcast from the Beinecke Library, Yale University

* The Labrador Duck from John James Audubon's Birds of America

* Audubon's Elephant: America ’ s Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-8050-7568-2

* Master engraver Robert Havell used aquatint for John James Audubon's Birds of America ( 1826 – 38 ).

* The first volume of John James Audubon's 10-volume The Birds of America is published.

Plate from Audubon's Birds of America ( book ) | Birds of America

It is the only library in the world with the first two quartos of Hamlet ; it holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, the first seven drafts of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, John James Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of manuscripts and first editions of the works of Charles Bukowski, and many other great treasures.

The Esquimaux Curlew ( sic ) appears as plate CCCLVII of Audubon's Birds of America.

Audubon's International Alliances Program ( IAP ) brings together people throughout the Western Hemisphere to work together to implement conservation solutions at Important Birds Areas ( IBA's ).

Mayo is best known as the joint author, with Baird and Ridgway, of A History of North American Birds ( 3 volumes, 1874 ), which was the first attempt since John James Audubon's ( thirty years prior ) to complete the study of American ornithology.

* 1827 – 1838 – Publication of John James Audubon's Birds of America

His first purchase was a complete copy of Audubon's The Birds of America for the then extraordinary sum of $ 970.

* Magnolia grandiflora Magnolia Grandiflora from Audubon's Birds of America

Its holdings also include numerous illustrated works from as early as the 15th century, including Konrad Gessner's Historia animalium, Maria Sibylla Merian's Insects of Surinam, Edward Lear's Psittacidae or Parrots, and a double elephant folio of John James Audubon's The Birds of America.

As a child he had been influenced by Audubon's Birds of America.

Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope ( 1853-69 ), which he considered to be a completion of John James Audubon's Birds of America.

Argento's other song cycles include A Water Bird Talk, which combines Chekov's one-act monodrama " On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco " with passages from Audubon's Birds of America ; The Andrée Expedition, which includes journal entries by Salomon Andrée during his ill-fated attempt to travel to the North Pole by balloon ; and Miss Manners on Music ( 1998 ), which sets newspaper clippings by columnist Judith Martin ( aka " Miss Manners ").

The first volume purchased by the library was John James Audubon's Birds of America, acquired in 1838 for $ 970.

Thayer studied Audubon's Birds of America on an almost daily basis, experimented with taxidermy, and made his first artworks: watercolor paintings of animals.

* November 11-Robert Havell, Jr., English principal engraver of Audubon's Birds of America ( born 1793 )

Audubon's final work, on mammals, was the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, prepared in collaboration with his good friend Rev John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina, who supplied much of the scientific text.

The Myrtle and Audubon's forms are migratory, traveling to the southern U. S., Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for winters.

It was based on Claude Rozier's buying half of Jean Audubon ’ s share of a plantation in Haiti, and lending money to the partnership as secured by half interest in lead mining at Audubon's property of Mill Grove.

* The Audubon Museum at John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky houses many of Audubon's original watercolors, oils, engravings and personal memorabilia.

This passerine bird was long known to be closely related to its western counterpart, Audubon's Warbler, and at various times the two forms have been classed as separate species or grouped as Yellow-rumped Warblers, Dendroica coronata.

Image: Fritillaria_meleagris_audubon. jpg | Snakeshead Fritillary ( Taken at Audubon's marsh — West France )

Of course, it must be said to Audubon's credit that at his time neither theories of evolution nor of biogeography or phylogeny were accepted, and so his error is excusable.

In 1842, the church, running out of space in its churchyard, established Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum in Upper Manhattan between Broadway and Riverside Drive, at the Chapel of the Intercession ( now The Church of the Intercession, New York ), formerly the location of John James Audubon's estate.

( Audubon's account reveals that he learned oil painting in December 1822 from Jacob Stein, an itinerant portrait artist, and after they had enjoyed all the portrait patronage to be expected in Natchez, Mississippi during January – March 1823, they resolved to travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.

Tropical shearwaters, such as the Wedge-tailed Shearwater and the Audubon's Shearwater, also dive in order to hunt, making the shearwaters the only tropical seabirds capable of exploiting that ecological niche ( all other tropical seabirds feed close to the surface ).

MacGillivray was a friend of American bird expert John James Audubon, and wrote a large part of Audubon's Ornithological Biographies from 1830-1839.

Brewer spent his spare time contributing to a number of ornithological publications, including John James Audubon's Ornithological Biography.

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

His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America ( 1827 – 1839 ), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.

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

) Audubon called his future work Birds of America.

Plate from Birds of America, featuring the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

" He raised enough money to begin publishing his Birds of America.

) The New-York Historical Society has all 435 of the preparatory watercolors for Birds of America.

He responded, " ' The Birds of America ' will then raise in value as much as they are now depreciated by certain fools and envious persons.

He followed Birds of America with a sequel Ornithological Biographies.

In 1842, he published an octavo edition of Birds of America, with 65 additional plates.

Birds of America is still considered one of the greatest examples of book art.

* 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.

* On December 6 2010, a copy of Birds of America was sold at a Sotheby's auction for $ 11. 5 million, a record price for a single printed book.

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

* " National Geographic " Field Guide to the Birds of North America ISBN 0-7922-6877-6

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