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| John James Audubon c1850 |
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 7 of a 7-part series on Audubon's Birds of America:
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| Scaup Duck |
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| Scolopaceus Courlan |
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| Semi-palmated Sandpiper |
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| Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet |
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| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
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| Sharp-tailed Grous (Grouse) |
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| Shoveller Duck |
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| Slender-billed Guillemot |
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| Small Green-Crested Flycatcher |
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| Snow Bunting |
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| Snow Goose |
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| Snowy Heron or White Egret |
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| Snowy Owl |
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| Song Sparrow |
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| Spotted Sandpiper |
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| Summer Red Bird |
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| Swainson's Warbler |
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| Swallow-tailed Hawk |
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| Tengmalm's Owl |
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| Three-Toed Woodpecker |
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| Towhee Bunting chalk, pencil, watercolour and ink on paper 23.8 x 28.3 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Townsend's Sandpiper |
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| Townsend's Warbler, Arctic Blue Bird and Western Blue Bird |
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| Tropic Bird |
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| Trumpeter Swan |
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| Trumpeter Swan |
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| Turkey Buzzard |
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| Violet-green Cormorant and Townsend's Cormorant |
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| Virginia Rail watercolour original |
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| Virginian Partridge |
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| Washington Sea Eagle oil on canvas 116.8 x 84.5 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Western Duck |
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| White and Brown Ibis |
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| White Heron |
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| White-headed Eagle |
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| White-headed Eagle |
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| White-Legged Oyster-Catcher and Slender-Billed Oyster-Catcher |
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| Wild Turkey |
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| Wild Turkey |
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| Yellow Red-poll Warbler |
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| Yellow Shank |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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| Yellow-breasted Chat |
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| Yellow-Crowned Heron |