John James Audubon

Adventurous individuals such as John James Audubon and Constantine Rafinesque figure in the faunal documentation of North America.

xml's Blinklist.com 2008

About 2 a.m. in the early morning of December 16, 1811, the young painter John James Audubon was riding across the Big Barrens, a large grassland in western Kentucky, when his horse suddenly froze and splayed out its legs as if walking on a smooth sheet of ice.

Landon Jones: The New Madrid Earthquake: 200 Years Later Landon Jones 2011

John James Audubon/ Birds of America Detail of Audobon's drawing of a swallow-tailed kite John James Audubon is considered one of the greatest bird artists of all time, famous for his life-size depictions in "Birds of America" 1827-1838.

Up Close With Fur and Feathers 2011

The birds in Gary D. Schmidt's "Okay for Now" Clarion, 360 pages, $16.99 all come from the pages of John James Audubon's "Birds of America," a volume that utterly arrests 14-year-old Doug Swieteck the moment he glimpses it.

The Pains and Boons Of Teenagehood Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

From Rockwell, the prevailing mode shifts to John James Audubon.

Music With All the Fixings Will Friedwald 2011

This is not about ornithology in the sense of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" as much as it is in the sense of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Observing Fine Birds And Fine Feathers William Meyers 2011

LSU has one of the 119 surviving copies of John James Audubon's four-volume "Birds of America" 1827-38, the so-called—owing to the 39-by-27-inch size of its 435 plates—"double elephant folio."

The Joys of Slow Looking Willard Spiegelman 2011

About 2 a.m. in the early morning of December 16, 1811, the young painter John James Audubon was riding across the Big Barrens, a large grassland in western Kentucky, when his horse suddenly froze and splayed out its legs as if walking on a smooth sheet of ice.

Landon Jones: The New Madrid Earthquake: 200 Years Later Landon Jones 2011

Between his 18th and 25th birthdays, Lear pioneered the drawing of birds from life and the use of lithography to produce images of parrots, toucans and European birds to rival those in John James Audubon's Birds of America.

Lear's forgotten past as an artist 2012

"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits..." wrote John James Audubon.

Wendy Gordon: Birds and Tar Sands Oil Don't Mix Wendy Gordon 2011