John james audubon

I have not met with this species in the State of Louisiana more than half a dozen times; nor indeed have I seen it at all in the Western States, excepting that of Ohio, where I have occasionally observed an individual, apparently out of its usual range. Some of these individuals were probably bound for the Upper Lakes. The woody sides of the sea are the places to which this

A Museum Quality Print of the Barn Owl by John James Audubon for Birds of America being picture #171 in the 1st Havell edition of this ornithology book. In this early American ornithology painting Mr Audubon shows a pair of owls flying over a moonlit river with one of the birds clutching a ground squirrel. This was a rare night scene for Mr. Audubon. Mr. Audubon says of this night bird "The Barn Owl of the United States is far more abundant in the Southern Districts than in the other parts…

In the end of June, 1832, I observed one of these birds a few miles below the city of Camden, New Jersey, flying over a meadow in pursuit of insects, after which it alighted on the top of a small...

When ranking the world’s most valuable books, it’s been said that copies of naturalist-adventurer John James Audubon’s The Birds of America would cons...

I have met with this species in every portion of the Southern and Western States, where, however, it is seen only in the early part of spring and in autumn, on its passage to and from its summer residence. In South Carolina it arrives about the 25th of March, and becomes more abundant in April; but it has left that country by the 10th of May. During its stay there, it keeps in

10 OLD 1937 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON THE BIRDS OF AMERICA BOOK PLATES Flamingo (431),Black - Poll Warbler (133),Worm - Eating Warbler (34),Canvasback (301),European Cormorant (266) Long - Eared Owl (383),Blackburnian Warbler (135),Two Warblers (414),Trumpeter Swan (376 ),GYRFALCON ( 196) ABOUT 10 3/4 X 8 1/2

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A complicated history.

On the 7th of May, 1832, while sailing from Indian Key, one of the numerous islets that skirt the south-eastern coast of the Peninsula of Florida, I for the first time saw a flock of Flamingoes. It...

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