Famous naturalist John James Audubon "did despicable things" and supported his work by buying and selling enslaved people — and that's according to the organization that bears his name.

The association with the naturalist John James Audubon is “problematic” for a local group seeking to be more inclusive. By Winnie Hu NYC Audubon will drop Audubon from its name over concerns ...

Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould. Elizabeth Gould’s crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), Volume 5, Plate 22, from John Gould’s ...

Stuart Wells, the executive director of the group formerly known as Portland Audubon, takes a look at construction at the nonprofit's animal hospital on March 1, 2023. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB ...

The Chicago Audubon Society will soon become the Chicago Bird Alliance. Leaders of the bird conservation organization decided to adopt a new name after grappling with the legacy of John James ...

The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon, the ...

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and ...

John James Audubon (1785-1851) is a much-studied personality, his journals and writings giving historians such tasty fodder that it might seem difficult to present a fresh view of this unruly genius.