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Also Known As Fougère Rabin • Jean Rabin • Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon
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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John James Audubon
Hand-colored engraving by John James Audubon showing a group of Carolina Parrots with green bodies and yellow heads perched on bare branches.
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
summer tanager
American White Pelican
Hand-colored engraving by John James Audubon showing two Iceland or gyrfalcons; one stands on a rocky ledge eating prey, while the other spreads its wings above.
Audubon, John James
Hand-colored engraving by John James Audubon showing three blue jays perched on a flowering branch, with vibrant blue feathers and detailed botanical elements.
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Maria Martin
American artist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
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Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
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Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
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
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
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John Gould
British ornithologist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
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Abraham Trembley
Swiss naturalist
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Jack Miner
Canadian naturalist
Pennant, Thomas
Thomas Pennant
Welsh naturalist
Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross  (The Gross Clinic)
Thomas Eakins
American painter
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
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Bill Traylor
American artist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
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Warder Clyde Allee
American zoologist

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