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| John James Audubon self-portrait 1826 |
From his father's Pennsylvania estate, Audubon made the first bird-ringing experiments. After failing in various business ventures, he concentrated on drawing and studying birds, which took him from Florida to Labrador. His extraordinary four-volume The Birds of America, first published in London in 1827, was a 12-year enterprise that exponentially increased the knowledge of American ornithological and natural history.
The images featured in this series are mainly hand-coloured etchings and aquatints, with a few original watercolours here and there. (You can click on individual images to enlarge them).
This is part 2 of a 7-part series on Audubon's Birds of America:
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| Black Harrier |
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| Black Skimmer, or Shearwater |
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| Black Tern |
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| Black Vulture |
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| Black Warrior |
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| Black, or Surf Duck |
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| Black-bellied Plover |
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| Black-billed Cuckoo |
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| Black-Poll Warbler |
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| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
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| Black-throated Bunting |
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| Black-Throated Diver |
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| Black-throated green Warbler, Blackburnian, Mourning Warbler |
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| Black-throated Guillemot, Nobbed-billed Auk, Curled-Crested Auk and Horned-billed Guillemot |
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| Black-Winged Hawk |
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| Blackburnian Warbler |
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| Blue Crane, or Heron |
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| Blue Grosbeak |
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| Blue Jay |
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| Blue-bird |
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| Blue-eyed yellow Warbler |
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| Blue-green Warbler |
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| Blue-Grey Fly-catcher |
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| Blue-headed Pigeon |
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| Blue-Winged Teal |
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| Blue-winged Yellow Warbler |
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| Boat-tailed Grackle |
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| Bohemian Chatterer |
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| Bonaparte's Flycatcher |
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| Bonapartian Gull |
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| Booby Gannet |
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| Brant Goose |
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| Brasilian Caracara Eagle |
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| Broad-winged Hawk |
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| Brown Creeper and Californian Nuthatch |
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| Brown Pelican |
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| Brown Pelican |
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| Brown-Headed Nuthatch |
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| Buff breasted Sandpiper |
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| Bullock's Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Mexican Goldfinch and Varied Thrush |
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| Burgomaster Gull |
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| Burrowing Owl, Large-Headed Burrowing Owl and Little Night Owl |