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.

* 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

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.

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

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

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

The Myrtle can be distinguished from Audubon's Warbler by its whitish eyestripe, white ( not yellow ) throat, and contrasting cheek patch.

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.

* 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.

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 ").

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.

As a child he had been influenced by Audubon's 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

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 ).

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.

Nature centers and wildlife sanctuaries continue to be an important part of Audubon's work to educate and inspire the public about the environment and how to conserve it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Audubon's Mississippi River and Louisiana Coastal Initiatives have been helping to restore coastal wetlands and to rebuild Mississippi River delta marshlands.

Fletcher himself manned the end loader which demolished one of the Audubon's Hebbardsville toll booths during a press conference and ceremony which heralded the end of toll collections.

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

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

Year-round breeders include White and Bridled Terns, White-tailed Tropicbirds and some 1000 – 1, 500 pairs of Audubon's Shearwaters.

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 ).

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.

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