Audubon
John James, 1785–1851, U.S. naturalist who painted and wrote about the birds of North America.
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After leaving the Nation, Malcolm X had ordered his security team not to carry guns and not to search people at the door to the Audubon so as not to deter people from attending his meetings.
Malcolm X: Who was he, why was he assassinated, and who did it? | Sydney Trent | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostAlexander said she worked in the environmental field for years before learning of Audubon’s past.
Started as the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia in 1897, it is the first of the 11 original Audubon societies to announce a name change, according to Caroline Brewer, the naturalist society’s spokeswoman.
Audubon is one of around 80 zoos across the US that have asked for experimental doses of the vaccine, says Mahesh Kumar, head of vaccine research for Zoetis, which manufactures the animal vaccine.
Zoo animals are getting COVID vaccines made specially for them | Philip Kiefer | October 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceEven accounts of committee meetings—one with 1920s Audubon members, another with contemporary seminomadic Namibian herders—had my heart pounding, tickled to be so immersed in bureaucratic Ping-Pong.
‘Beloved Beasts’ Is a Riveting History of Conservation | Erica Berry | March 12, 2021 | Outside Online
“There used to be a lot more of us,” said Greenwood, who serves on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society.
For me, these two artists, Roger Tory Peterson and David Allen Sibley are our own John James Audubon of the 20th and 21st century.
Book Bag: Terry Tempest Williams’s Birding Bibles | Terry Tempest Williams | March 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd Audubon continued to paint birds as his business ventures faltered and failed.
Christie’s Auctions Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’: Priciest Book Ever? | Josh Dzieza | January 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBefore Audubon, ornithologists depicted birds flatly and schematically.
Christie’s Auctions Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’: Priciest Book Ever? | Josh Dzieza | January 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOlivier is based loosely on Alexis de Tocqueville and Parrot has affinities with Audubon.
Audubon, the greatest of all American bird lovers, gives a graphic account of the migration of a flock of these birds.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThe story of John James Audubon is as interesting as the most romantic novel.
The Complete Club Book for Women | Caroline French BentonHere Audubon lived, wrote, and painted until even his rugged strength was worn out.
Literary New York | Charles HemstreetAudubon saw a flock that contained “one billion one hundred and sixteen millions of birds!”
The Hunters' Feast | Mayne ReidAudubon mentions having seen it in Maine at the end of October, but this specimen surely must have been an exceptional laggard.
Bird Neighbors | Neltje Blanchan
British Dictionary definitions for Audubon
/ (ˈɔːdəˌbɒn) /
John James. 1785–1851, US naturalist and artist, noted particularly for his paintings of birds in Birds of America (1827–38)
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Scientific definitions for Audubon
[ ô′də-bŏn′ ]
American ornithologist and artist. His effort to catalog every species of bird in the United States resulted in the publication of The Birds of America (1827-1838), a collection of 1,065 life-size engravings of birds found in eastern North America. It is considered a classic work in ornithology and in American art.
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