Audubon's

Once restricted mainly to counting birds — most famously, in Audubon's 111-year-old Christmas Bird Count — citizen science has expanded rapidly in recent years, both in number and variety of projects.

Citizen science: Armies of volunteers aid research 2011

First, we are greeted by an enormous copy of Audubon's 1840 Birds of America (five feet wide when opened), displaying his life-sized illustration of the passenger pigeon.

"There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..." greygirlbeast 2009

These folks were interested in everything: the birds, the colors, the printing, Audubon's shadowy history, and the economics of art.

The Joys of Slow Looking Willard Spiegelman 2011

The art of illustration is a respected genre arising most famously from fiction—Sir John Tenniel's "Alice in Wonderland," for instance—and science, as in John James Audubon's "Birds of North America."

An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias Sidney Lawrence 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

"Far more concerning in the long term are the myriad other threats birds face from widespread habitat destruction and global climate change," Melanie Driscoll, Audubon's director of bird conservation in the Mississippi river region, said.

Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana 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

But when Doug follows the girl into the town library and sees Audubon's painting of the Arctic Tern, something momentous happens inside him.

The Pains and Boons Of Teenagehood Meghan Cox Gurdon 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

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