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Meisei University: Birds of America — the complete sets of 435 plates of drawings, with the accompanying five volumes of textbooks. The short film John James Audubon: The Birds of America (1986) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31/September 1887/Sketch of J. J. Audubon
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xeno-canto, which translates to "strange sound", is a sounds-only project seeking to highlight sounds of birds, rather than images or videos. xeno-canto was launched on May 30, 2005, by Bob Planqué, a mathematical biologist at VU University Amsterdam, and Willem-Pier Vellinga, a physicist who now consults for a global materials technology company. [10]
The National Audubon Society's Bird Migration Explorer provides an opportunity to track some of these movements. The Bird Migration Explorer, launched on September 2022, is an online tool that ...
The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by renowned ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996).
NYC Bird Alliance was originally named in honor of John James Audubon, an ornithologist and naturalist who shot, [1] painted, catalogued, and described the Birds of North America. Audubon was a slave owner and anti-abolitionist, and while the National Audubon Society decided to retain the name, multiple local organizations have opted to change it.
The 30-second video shows a bird in a tree, which isn't very interesting until you turn your sound on and listen to the bird. It sounds just like a real siren and had everybody fooled!
That law passed in 1903 and was known as the "Audubon Law." It gave the Audubon Society the power to enforce wildlife laws in North Carolina and authorized the Society to hire game wardens to carry out the enforcement. These efforts were funded by donations from individuals as well as the sale of non-resident hunting licenses for $10 each.