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| John James Audubon |
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 6 of a 7-part series on Audubon's Birds of America:
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| Pileated Woodpecker |
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| Pin tailed Duck |
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| Pine Creeping Warbler |
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| Pinnated Grouse |
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| Piping Flycatcher |
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| Buffel-headed Duck |
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| Plumed Partridge and Thick-legged Partridge |
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| Prairie Starling |
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| Prairie Titlark |
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| Prairie Warbler |
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| Prothonotary Warbler |
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| Puffin |
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| Purple Finch |
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| Purple Gallinule |
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| Purple Grackle watercolour, pencil, chalk and ink on paper 48.9 x 35.5 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Purple Grakle, or Common Crow Blackbird |
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| Purple Heron |
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| Purple Martin |
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| Purple Sandpiper |
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| Red headed Woodpecker |
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| Red Phalarope watercolour original |
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| Red winged Starling, or Marsh Blackbird |
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| Red-breasted Merganser |
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| Red-breasted Sandpiper |
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| Red-cockaded Woodpecker |
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| Red-Cockaded Woodpecker watercolour original |
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| Red-eyed Vireo watercolour |
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| Red-necked Grebe |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Red-tailed Hawk |
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| Red-Throated Diver |
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| Republican, or Cliff Swallow |
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| Rice Bird |
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| Rock Grous (Grouse) |
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| Roseate Spoonbill |
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| Rough-legged Falcon |
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| Rough-legged Falcon |
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| Ruby-throated Humming Bird |
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| Ruff-necked Humming-bird |
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| Ruffed Grouse |
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| Salt Water Marsh Hen |
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| Sandwich Tern watercolour original |
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| Savannah Finch |
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| Scarlet Ibis |