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Click through the images below to read Audubon’s writings on each species and access a free high-resolution download. These artworks are a spectacular product of John James Audubon’s life’s work, but his legacy is also intertwined with that of America’s past and present culture of racial oppression.
- American Flamingo
The birds were now, as I thought, within a hundred and fifty...
- American Sparrow Hawk
I took it home, named it Nero, and provided it with small...
- Blue Jay
The Blue Jay is one of those birds that are found capable of...
- Purple Grakle, Or Common Crow Blackbird
Most of these birds leave the south about the middle of...
- Large Billed Puffin
Plate 293 Large billed Puffin. Although my learned friend...
- Black Backed Gull
The birds never leave their eggs for any length of time,...
- American Flamingo
833 birds. Northern Cardinal. Cardinals, Grosbeaks and Buntings. Barred Owl. Owls. Blue Jay. Crows, Magpies, Jays. Red-tailed Hawk. Hawks and Eagles. Great Horned Owl. Owls. House Finch. Finches. Gray Catbird. Mockingbirds and Thrashers. Mourning Dove. Pigeons and Doves.
The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London.
- John James Audubon
- 1827
Nov 1, 2019 · Now, the Audubon Society’s newly redesigned website displays all 435 reproductions of John Audubon’s work in alphabetical order with original accompanying text from the 1800s. And the best part is that you can also download all of The Birds of America plates in high resolution for free!
Oct 22, 2019 · If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to download free high resolution images of 435 bird illustrations, you’re finally in the right place. The National Audubon Society has recently made John James Audubon’s seminal Birds of America available to the public in a downloadable digital library (signing up for their email list is a ...
Red-headed Woodpecker. Photo: Vance Solseth/Audubon Photography Awards. Bird ID is like solving a puzzle. A Northern Cardinal's crimson feathers, an American Robin's round shape, a White-breasted Nuthatch's acrobatics—these traits are the pieces that will help you put together a successful ID.
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The entire collection is scanned and online. Also check out our dedicated website on Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh. What's in the entire collection? The University of Pittsburgh is fortunate to own one of the rare, complete sets of John James Audubon’s Birds of America.