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| John James Audubon, engraved by H. B. Hall, based on a painting by Henry Inman |
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 5 of a 7-part series on Audubon's Birds of America:
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| Ivory-billed Woodpecker |
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| Key-west Dove |
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| King Duck |
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| Kittiwake Gull |
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| Labrador Falcon |
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| Large billed Puffin |
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| Lark Finch, Prairie Finch and Brown Song Sparrow |
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| Lazuli Finch, Crimson-necked Bull-finch, Grey Crowned Linnet, Cow-pen Bird, Evening Grosbeak and Brown Longspur |
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| Lazuli Finch, Clay-Coloured Finch and Oregon Snow Finch, Plant Liberty Thrush |
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| Least Bittern |
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| Least Stormy-Petrel |
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| Lesser Red-Poll |
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| Lesser Tern |
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| Little Tawny Thrush, Ptiliogony's Townsendi and Canada Jay |
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| Little Tyrant Flycatcher, Blue Mountain Warbler, Short-Legged Pewee, Small-Headed Flycatcher, Bartram's Vireo and Rocky Mountain Flycatcher |
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| Loggerhead Shrike |
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| Long-billed Curlew |
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| Long-eared Owl |
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| Louisiana Hawk |
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| Louisiana Heron |
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| Mallard Duck |
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| Maria's Woodpecker etc |
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| Marsh Tern |
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| Marsh Wren |
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| Meadow Lark |
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| Mississippi Kite |
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| Mocking BIrd |
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| Mountain Mocking bird and Varied Thrush |
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| Mourning Dove |
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| Night Hawk |
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| Night Heron, or Qua bird |
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| Nuttalls lesser-marsh Wren |
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| Nuttall's Starling, Yellow-headed Troopial and Bullock's Oriole |
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| Orchard Oriele |
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| Osprey and Weakfish oil on canvas mounted on hardboard 101.6 x 66.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Painted Finch |
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| Palm Warbler |
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| Passenger Pigeon |
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| Peregrine Falcon |
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| Pied Duck |
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| Pied oyster-catcher |
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| Pigeon Hawk |