John James Audubon was an American artist and naturalist best known for his detailed paintings of North American birds. Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed ...

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Stephen Lewis Detail from the color plate of John James Audubon’s swift fox in The Quadrupeds ... His painting of a wildcat, or bobcat, was based on a live animal that had been captured ...

It's not hard to imagine why a group of teenagers might attempt to steal John James Audubon's book The Birds of America, a true story told in the film American Animals. Published 1827-1838, it's ...

Author David Sibley writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: As a young man John James Audubon was obsessed with ... considered the most comprehensive North American field guide.

Whether you're interested in colonial furniture, period architecture, tropical greenery or artist and naturalist John James Audubon, you'll find a host of curiosities at the Audubon House ...

As a boy, he attended school in John James Audubon's mansion in Assigning ... on to work for fair and reasonable treaties with Native American tribes, and for the preservation of America's ...

John James Audubon ... National Audubon Society and passage of the Weeks-McLean Law, also known as the Migratory Bird Act, by Congress on March 4, 1913. The law, a landmark in American ...