Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world\'s greatest bird painters.
Through talent and dogged determination, he ros.
Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter.
His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image--lifelike and Life size--rendered in vibrant color.
Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world\'s greatest bird painters