Audubon saw the bird again "a few years afterwards," near the Green River in Kentucky. There, high on a rocky cliff, he saw a nest and watched a mated pair of sea eagles bring fish to their chicks.

S etting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not ...

He painted over 1,200 species of birds, far more than Audubon’s 497, but he was also building on the legacy of Audubon and others, including the artist Audubon sought to outdo, Alexander Wilson ...

FILE - John James Audubon, the pioneer field biologist and great bird artist of his time, who created the incomparable anthology "Birds Of America", is seen in this Jan. 1951 black and white photo ...

Birds of America is a series that was published from 1827 to 1838 in which John James Audubon attempted to paint every bird species in North America. The full four volumes contain 435 hand-colored ...

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 ...