That is where “The Birds That Audubon Missed” excels; the real beauty of the book is expressed in its ... He didn’t set out to render a verdict on the naming controversies, but he does ...

A copy of the world's most expensive printed book has sold at auction in London for £6.5m ($10.3m), but why is John James Audubon's Birds of America ... He would set up a makeshift exhibition.

As a nature-obsessed boy in suburban Indiana flipping through picture books of bears ... long before any Europeans set foot on their lands.” But “The Birds That Audubon Missed” is ultimately ...

As Audubon set out to document bird life with his ... as Kenn Kaufman reminds readers in his new book, “The Birds That Audubon Missed.” I’ve long thought that the first word of “The ...

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and ...

The title of the series, which I adopted from Audubon’s book, Birds of America, seemed inherently loaded with meaning.” The America today that he shows is one of self-indulgence and disregard ...

John James Audubon migrated up & down early 19th-Century North America about as freely as the birds he painted. When he was not padding through the Kentucky forest or slinking about bird-abundant ...

A naturalist and illustrator, Audubon traveled North America in the early 1800s to document its birds ... a set of large plates with life-sized bird paintings that were bound into books.

Audubon’s climate science report, Survival by Degrees, reveals that two-thirds of North American birds are threatened by extinction from climate change, including species featured in the Audubon ...

Audubon, like many historical figures, presents a complex story to modern eyes. He was a central figure in early American natural sciences. His seminal work, Birds of America, contains hundreds of ...

Bright, beautiful birds of Florida greeted John James Audubon on his trek through Florida, and many of the creatures he saw firsthand ― some of which are extinct ― will be displayed through ...