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Also Known As Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon • Jean Rabin • Fougère Rabin
Born April 26, 1785 • Les Cayes
Died January 27, 1851 (aged 65) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1900)
Notable Works “The Birds of America” • “Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”
Subjects Of Study animal • bird • North America

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American White Pelican
Iceland or Jer Falcon
Audubon, John James
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
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Maria Martin
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Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
John Gould
British ornithologist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
Abraham Trembley
Swiss naturalist
Jack Miner
Canadian naturalist
Pennant, Thomas
Thomas Pennant
Welsh naturalist
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Bill Traylor
American artist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Max Ernst
Max Ernst
German artist
Sherrie Levine
American artist

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