A hand coloured illustration of two parrots facing each other. One on the left facing to the right and the parrot on the right facing the left.
One of our largest & heaviest treasures: John James Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’. He travelled Britain for subscriptions to finance these hand-coloured, life-size illustrations of every North American bird species. Ref: E096/1827 #LibraryofBham #BirdsOfAmerica
Painting of State Birds of the USA featuring John James Audubon
If, like me, you're slightly obsessed with #birds, and you're watching the BBC's #SmallProphets, you probably did a double take when John James #Audubon’s book 'The #BirdsofAmerica' popped up so prominently in the plot! What a moment!
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Painting of State Birds of the USA featuring John James Audubon
If you’re obsessed with #birds & you're watching the BBC's #smallprophets you probably did a double take when JJ #Audubon’s book 'The #BirdsofAmerica' popped up in the plot!
I pay tribute to Audubon in my hand-painted map of #StateBirds.
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#birding #art #painting
White-breasted Nuthatch with insect, Northwoods, Central Park, NYC markscheflen.com #birdphotography #whitebreastednuthatch #centralpark #birds #birdseenin2025 #conservationphotography #birdsofamerica #birds #bird #nuthatches #biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlifeconservation #wildbirds
Chipping Sparrow, Green Bench, Cental Park, NYC markscheflen.com #birdphotography #sparrows #conservationphotography #birdsofamerica #chippingsparrow #birds #bird #blueskyphotographers #biodiversity #wildlifeconservation #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #centralpark #birding #urbanbirding
Ruby Kinglet, Wildflower Meadow, Central Park, NYC. Ruby-crowned Kinglet is a tiny, active songbird found across North America. markscheflen.com #birdphotography #kinglets #conservationphotography #birdsofamerica #rubykinglet #biodiversity #conservationphotpgraphy #wildlifeconservation
Spotted all of these so far on my trip to Ohio - but only *two* are actually the *same* as the UK birds of the same name...
Any guesses which?
1) Goldfinch
2) Sparrow
3) Robin
4) Chimney swift
#bird #birdwatching #birdoftheday #birdsofamerica #birdsofuk
A smiling puffin flying through the sky
XCU of puffin
A puffin building a nest
A puffin stretching it’s wings
It’s peak 🐧 #puffin breeding season. In a week or two their fledglings (aka pufflings) will hatch. Puffins will only fly once a year in order to build nests and fish for their young.
#birdsofmaine #seabirds #newenglandcoast #birdsofamerica #northamericanbirds
In this special bonus episode, Sophie sits down with critically acclaimed author (and fellow Brooklynite) Rumaan Alam to find out why Lorrie Moore’s 1998 collection of short stories, Birds of America, is a classic.
#patreon #bookrecommendations #birdsofamerica #americanauthors #literaryfiction
Female cardinal
#birdsphotography #birdsofamerica #cardinal #naturephotography #birdswatching #usalife
#picoftheday #mahmoments #exploreusa
#wildlifephotography #wildlife
What's up bro
#birdsofinstagram #birdsofamerica #wildlife #forest #cardinal #cardinalfamily #birdsphotography
#wildlifephotography
Ruby throated hummingbird
Watercolor on paper
#birds #colibrí #hummingbird #birdsofamerica #painting #watercolor
In the early 1800s, JJ Audubon crisscrossed North America shooting birds and then drawing and painting likeness. An 1833 trip to Labrador gave the man to paint the North ATlantic seabirds, like the two puffins pictured below.
#JJAudubon #seabirds #BirdsofAmerica
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Mourning doves
#birdsphotography
#birdsofamerica #wildlife
#wildlifephotography
#northamericanbirds #springishere #mahmoments #foryoupage
#picoftheday #doves
🕊️ Art Meets Nature: The Birds of America 🕊️
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#Audubon #BirdsOfAmerica #StampCollecting #NatureArt #Philately #Bookstagram
Male house Finch
#birdsphotography
#housefinch #birdsofamerica #wildlife
#wildlifephotography
#northamericanbirds #springishere #mahmoments #foryoupage
#picoftheday
Female House Finch
#birdsphotography
#housefinch #birdsofamerica #wildlife
#wildlifephotography
#northamericanbirds #springishere #mahmoments #foryoupage
#picoftheday
Red shouldered hawk family
Acrylic on wood
#birds #hawks #raptors #redshoulderedhawk #babybird #painting #amatuerart #birdsofamerica
Brian Vassey films Rebecca Goldie as she works on a large book. She is wearing magnifying glasses and using Japanese paper to repair a tear. The page she is working on shows a large Eagle.
Exciting things happening in the library... our conservator, Rebecca Goldie, being filmed as she works on preserving our copy of JJ Audubon's Birds of America.
#Audubon #BirdsOfAmerica #Conservation #Rarebooks
To further celebrate this occasion, we’ve included a plate of one our favorite illustrations—the amazingly distorted necks on Audubon’s pair of #CanadianGeese, as included in #BirdsOfAmerica [1839].
Newest awesome book. Thank you, Danielle Goddard!
#books #shelfie #FridayReads #birds #birdsofamerica
