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Incas (before 1885 – February 21, 1918) was a male Carolina parakeet and the last member of his species known with certainty. Though probable sightings of wild Carolina parakeets continued into the 1930s, and the American Ornithologists Union accepted a sighting in 1920, no specimens were collected after 1904 and he is often cited as the last individual in existence.
C. c. ludovicianus by John James Audubon Carolinensis is a species of the genus Conuropsis , one of numerous genera of New World Neotropical parrots in family Psittacidae of true parrots . The binomial Psittacus carolinensis was assigned by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae published in 1758.
John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. [1]
The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon, the ...
John James Audubon was an 19th-century ornithologist, naturalist and painter who owned slaves, opposed abolitionism and exploited Black and Indigenous people, according to a re-examination of the ...
Chapters around the country are switching names with new knowledge that John James Audubon held slaves more than 170 years ago. After 80 years of bird watching, local Audubon seeks more inclusive ...
Some new drawings were included, mostly by Audubon's youngest son John Woodhouse Audubon, though Audubon and members of Bowen's team also contributed. [25] [26] The Bien Edition (after chromolithography pioneer Julius Bien), was a full-sized reissue published in 1858 by Roe Lockwood in New York under the supervision of John Woodhouse Audubon. [27]
In the following months, there was increased media attention devoted to eponymous bird names, particularly those honoring historical figures with links to slavery. [17] The National Audubon Society publicly acknowledged that John James Audubon bought and sold slaves in a blog post by historian Gregory Nobles on July 31, 2020. [18]