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Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.
Golden Field Guide. The Golden Field Guides are a series of larger pocket-sized books that were created by Western Publishing and published under their "Golden Press" line (mostly used for children's books at the time), as a related series to the Golden Guides. Edited by Herbert Zim and Vera Webster, the books were written by experts in their ...
During the 1940s, Chopping also established himself as an author and illustrator of natural history and children's books. [2] His early work includes Butterflies in Britain (1943), which was drawn directly on the lithographic plates, A Book of Birds (1944), The Old Woman and the Pedlar (1944), The Tailor and the Mouse (1944), Wild Flowers (1944), Heads, Bodies & Legs with Denis Wirth-Miller ...
QL674 .A9 1827 [1] 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. Not all of the specimens illustrated in the work were collected by Audubon ...
December 11, 2016. (2016-12-11) (aged 78) U.S. Occupation (s) Illustrator and educator. Known for. Hosting the television program Cover to Cover from the 1960s to the 1990s. John Nelson Robbins, Jr. (1938–2016) was an illustrator and educator, who hosted the public television program Cover to Cover, aired in the United States and Canada from ...
Birds and Light: The Art of Lars Jonsson Helm (2002) ISBN 978-0-7136-6405-8 Where Heaven and Earth Touch: The Art of the Birdpainter Lars Jonsson Dr. M. Imhof (2008) ISBN 978-3-865-68412-7 Lars Jonsson's Birds , winner National Outdoor Book Award (Design and Artistic Merit), Princeton University Press (2008) ISBN 978-0-691-14151-0
Phoebe Snetsinger. Phoebe Snetsinger (née Burnett; June 9, 1931 – November 23, 1999) was an American birder famous for having seen and documented birds of 8,398 different species, [1] more than anyone else in history at the time, and was the first person to see more than 8,000. [2] Her memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time, explores this achievement.
Copan, Honduras. The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is a large yellow, red and blue Neotropical parrot native to humid evergreen forests of the Americas.Its range extends from southeastern Mexico to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil in lowlands of 500 m (1,600 ft) (at least formerly) up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft), the Caribbean island of Trinidad, as well as the Pacific island of ...