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

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.

* 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.

* Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh, a complete high resolution digitization of all 435 double elephant folios as well as his Ornithological Biography

* 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

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

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

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The Feeding of Birds is Prohibited in This square.

The game is mentioned in Alice Bertha Gomme's " Traditional Games " in 1894 under the name " Birds, Beasts and Fishes.

Birds have relatively large, elongated kidneys, each of which is divided into three or more distinct lobes.

Birds that call this area home for at least part of the year include: vultures, marabou storks, secretary birds, hornbills, crowned cranes, ostriches, long-crested Eagles, African pygmy-falcons and the lilac-breasted roller, which is the national bird of Kenya.

For example, an adult American is expected to be familiar with " Birds of a feather flock together ", part of the American paremiological minimum.

Birds also lack teeth or even a true jaw, instead having evolved a beak, which is far more lightweight.

Adam Diment's Philip McAlpine is a long-haired, hashish-smoking fop in the novels The Dolly Dolly Spy ( 1967 ), The Great Spy Race ( 1968 ), The Bang Bang Birds ( 1968 ) and Think, Inc. ( 1971 ).

Others have been made into short films, often rewritten by other people, and even as feature length films, such is the case of Children of the Corn, The Birds, Brokeback Mountain, Who Goes There ?, Duel, A sound of thunder, The Body, The Lawnmower Man, and Hearts in Atlantis.

Belon's Book of Birds ( 1555 ) is a folio volume with descriptions of some two hundred species.

* June – August 1929: the revue “ Lew Leslie's Black Birds ”, by a troop of a hundred black artists accompanied by the Jazz Plantation Orchestra, is put on at the Moulin Rouge.

Pea soup has been eaten since antiquity ; it is mentioned in Aristophanes ' The Birds, and according to one source " the Greeks and Romans were cultivating this legume about 500 to 400 BC.

Birds have a similar system of sex determination ( ZW sex-determination system ), in which it is the females that are heterogametic ( ZW ), while males are homogametic ( ZZ ).

The Mute Swan apparently is closest to the Southern Hemisphere Cygnus ( del Hoyo et al., eds, Handbook of the Birds of the World ); its habits of carrying the neck curved ( not straight ) and the wings fluffed ( not flush ) as well as its bill color and knob indicate that its closest living relative is the Black Swan.

Birds and mammals show complete separation of the heart into two pumps, for a total of four heart chambers ; it is thought that the four-chambered heart of birds evolved independently from that of mammals.

About 238 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is protected under the Migratory Birds Convention Act of Canada as the Hannah Bay Bird Sanctuary.

The Ham Wall National Nature Reserve, west of Glastonbury, is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

* Aristophanes ' play The Birds is performed.

Dead Birds is a 1963 documentary film by Robert Gardner about the Dani people of New Guinea.

Nyx is also the first principle in the opening chorus of Aristophanes ' The Birds, which may be Orphic in inspiration.

In an early account, Sophocles wrote that Tereus was turned into a big-beaked bird whom some say is a hawk while a number of retellings and other works ( including Aristophanes ' ancient comedy, The Birds ) hold that Tereus was instead changed into a hoopoe.