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.

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 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.

Audubon's folio renderings of a male and female Bachman's Warbler were painted on top of an illustration of the Franklinia tree first painted by Maria Martin, Bachman's sister-in-law and one of the country's first female natural history illustrators.

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

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.

David Yarnold became Audubon's 10th president in September 2010, expressing a commitment to build on the organization ’ s strong conservation legacy and expand its commitment to improving the quality of life for both birds and people.

This individual was collected on May 11, 1833, by Audubon's colleague John Kirk Townsend in New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

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 ").

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

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.

Some of the Audubon's earliest nature centers are still teaching young and old alike about the natural world.

Lansdowne's detailed watercolours of birds are similar in style to the work of John James Audubon-often featuring a specific species against a largely white background-but his subjects tend to display a greater lifelike quality and more natural postures than Audubon's.

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.

Audubon's great work was a remarkable accomplishment.

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

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.

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.

The original watercolor was purchased from Audubon's destitute widow by The New York History Society where it remains to this day.

It was his meeting with Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky in 1810 which probably inspired the younger man to produce a book of his own bird illustrations, though Audubon's reaction to Wilson was decidedly ambiguous.

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

Audubon's first run-away success was Mac Ahlberg's I, a Woman ( U. S. 1966 ).

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.

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

No specific details are known about the Dickcissel's lipochrome metabolism ; it may be that it happens to be more fine-tuned than in other birds, so that most mutations therein will be lethal and Audubon's bird was simply one of the very few individuals that survived.

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.

Until recently, that species was considered conspecific with Audubon's Shearwater.

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

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.

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.

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

( 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.

* 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.

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.

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 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.

* 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