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| John James Audubon by John Syme |
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 4 of a 7-part series on Audubon's Birds of America:
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| Foolish Guillemot |
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| Forked tailed Petrel |
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| Forked-tailed Flycatcher |
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| Fox-coloured Sparrow |
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| Frigate Pelican |
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| Fulmar Petrel |
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| Gannet |
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| Glossy Ibis |
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| Golden Crested Wren A.W., Sylvia Regulus transparent and opaque watercolour, chalk on paper 45.4 x 29.2 cm Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Golden Eagle |
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| Golden Plover |
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| Golden-crowned Thrush |
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| Golden-eye Duck |
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| Golden-winged Warbler and Cape May Warbler |
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| Golden-winged Woodpecker |
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| Goosander |
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| Goshawk and Stanley Hawk |
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| Great American Hen & Young |
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| Great Auk |
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| Great blue Heron |
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| Great Cinereous Owl |
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| Great Eskimo Curlew |
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| Great Horned Owl |
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| Great Marbled Godwit |
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| Great Northern Diver, or Loon |
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| Great Red breasted Rail or Fresh-water Marsh Hen |
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| Great White Heron |
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| Great-footed Hawk |
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| Green Heron |
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| Green winged Teal |
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| Ground Dove |
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| Hairy Woodpecker |
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| Hairy Woodpecker and Three-toed Woodpecker watercolour original |
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| Harris's Buzzard |
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| Havell's Tern and Trudeau's Tern |
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| Hawk Owl |
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| Hemlock Warbler |
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| Herring Gull |
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| Hooping Crane |
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| Horned Grebe |
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| Hudsonian Godwit |
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| Iceland, or Jer Falcon |
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| Ivory Gull |