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Remembering "The Bird of the Century," a Half-Century Later
In March of 1975, an extremely rare Ross's Gull was confirmed for the first time in the Lower 48. The sighting and the frenzy ...
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Collections: Birds of a Feather
Audubon’s Birds of America is considered one of the most important art and natural history works ever created. Charles Deering, a Northwestern benefactor, naturalist and art patron, gave the ...
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John James Audubon
Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed ... Today, the artist’s works are held in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of ...
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Art: Porcelain Birds
Some ten years ago, she was inspired by John James Audubon’s Birds of America, is now England’s only fashioner in porcelain of the birds of the U.S. Artist Doughty’s porcelain birds are as ...
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What Scientists Have Learned From 125 Years Of Bird Counts
This winter marks the 125th year of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, in which bird nerds across the Western Hemisphere venture outside to record all the birds they see and hear. Scientists use that ...
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Danny Heitman will talk bird books with Audubon Society at library; the public is invited
bird art, and of course, the world’s most famous bird artist, John James Audubon. Heitman authored “A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House,” among many other nature-based ...