File:Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (Audubon Plate, Crop).jpg
"PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria) /
Upper bird, female; lower, male /
Reproduced from the John J. Audubon Plate"
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Source
https://archive.org/stream/birdsofamericafr05audu#page/n39/mode/2up
Author
- Lithograph by J. T. Bowen after a painting by John James Audubon in Pennsylvania, 1824.
John James Audubon
(1785–1851) |
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Birth name: Jean-Jacques-Fougère Audubon | ||
Description | American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter and painter | ||
Date of birth/death | 26 April 1785 | 27 January 1851 | |
Location of birth/death | Les Cayes (Haiti) | New York City | |
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