( 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.

Boone's family insisted he never returned to Kentucky after 1799, although some historians believe Boone visited his brother Squire near Kentucky in 1810 and have therefore reported Audubon's story as factual.

Proponents of drilling in wildlife sanctuaries, like the Property and Environment Research Center, have argued this makes Audubon's opposition to drilling on protected lands hypocritical.

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.

The Myrtle form was apparently separated from the others by glaciation during the Pleistocene, and the Audubon's form may have originated more recently through hybridization between the Myrtle Warbler and the Mexican nigrifrons form.

However, the constraints of Audubon's wish have the birds illustrated life-size and the maximum page size forced Havell to overlap the birds in the final print.

It has since been placed on the National Audubon's List of Special Concern in 1986.

Audubon's Important Bird Area program has been protecting 370 million acres along migratory bird flyways in the United States and is a key part of Audubon's work with BirdLife International and other conservationists around the globe.

It has also been known as the Audubon's Caracara.

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

Seabirds include the second largest colony in the western Indian Ocean of Great Frigatebirds ( with up to 1100 pairs ), Audubon's Shearwaters ( up to 100 pairs, probably of the subspecies Puffinus lherminieri bailloni previously considered endemic to the Mascarene Islands ), Dimorphic Egrets and Caspian Terns.

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.

While there, he met the naturalist and physician Charles-Marie D ' Orbigny, who improved Audubon's taxidermy skills and taught him scientific methods of research.

Audubon's room was brimming with birds ' eggs, stuffed raccoons and opossums, fish, snakes, and other creatures.

Because rising tensions with the British resulted in President Jefferson's embargo of British trade, Audubon's business was not thriving.

The War of 1812 upset Audubon's plans to move his business to New Orleans.

Audubon's great work was a remarkable accomplishment.

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 work was completed by Audubon's sons and son-in-law and was published posthumously.

Audubon's influence on ornithology and natural history was far reaching.

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

John James Audubon's son reported seeing a nest belonging to the species in Labrador, but it is uncertain where it bred.

The average weight of these pigeons was 340 – 400 grams ( 12 – 14 oz ) and, per John James Audubon's account, length was 42 cm ( 16. 5 in ) in males and 38 cm ( 15 in ) in females.

Between 1803 and 1806 Mill Grove and its surrounding fields and woodlands first inspired young Audubon's passion for painting and drawing birds.

Little Tobago and St. Giles Island are important seabird nesting colonies, with Red-billed Tropicbird, Magnificent Frigatebird and Audubon's Shearwater amongst others.

The wooded slopes of Washington Heights seen from a sandy cove on the Hudson as they were about 1845 are illustrated in a canvas by John James Audubon's son, Victor Clifford Audubon, conserved by the Museum of the City of New York.

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

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.

Puffinus are the ' smaller ' Puffinus shearwaters ( Manx, Little and Audubon's Shearwaters, for example ), and the Neonectris are the ' larger ' Puffinus shearwaters ( Sooty Shearwaters, for example ); in 2004 it was proposed that Neonectris be split into its own genus, Ardenna.

* Patrikeev, Michael, Jack C. Eitniear, Scott M. Werner, Paul C. Palmer ( 2008 ) Interactions and Hybridization between Altamira and Audubon's Orioles in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Birding 40 ( 2 ): 42-6

Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins, is one of the outstanding tourist spots in Minnesota.

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

Below the fort, high bluffs extended uninterruptedly for six miles along the Mississippi River.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

In the summer of 1861, Davis appointed several generals to defend Confederate lines from the Mississippi River east to the Allegheny Mountains.

The most sensitive, and in many ways the most crucial areas, along the Mississippi River and in western Tennessee along the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River were placed under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk and Brig.

To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh ( April 1862 ) and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army.

* 1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

* 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.

* 1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

Carnegie, through Keystone, supplied the steel for and owned shares in the landmark Eads Bridge project across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri ( completed 1874 ).

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.

* 1865 – The steamboat, carrying 2, 400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1, 700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.

In settling the American west it was generally faster to navigate down River from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to the Ohio River confluence with the Mississippi and then pole up river against the current to St Louis than to travel overland on the rare primitive dirt roads for many decades after the American revolution.

Boone has the highest elevation of any town of its size ( over 10, 000 population ) east of the Mississippi River.

* Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana

The Mississippi and Nelson watersheds are separated by the Laurentian Divide, which meets the Continental Divide at Triple Divide Peak near the headwaters of the Columbia's Flathead River tributary.