Today is #AudubonDay, commemorating pioneering naturalist and artist John James Audubon who was born #OTD (26 April 1785 - 27 January 1851). I put together this overview of the 5 now extinct and 3 other possibly extinct birds whose images are recorded in The Birds of America for the blog:
Plate 26: Carolina Parrot, 1827 (Carolina Parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis)
Plate 62: Passenger Pigeon, 1829 (Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius)
Plate 66: Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1829 (Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus principalis)
Plate: 185: Bachmanās Warbler, 1834 Bachmanās Warbler, Vermivora bachmanii)
Plate 186: Pinnated Grous, 1834 (Heath Hen, Tympanuchus cupido cupido)
Plate 208: Esquimaux Curlew, 1834 (Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis)
Plate 332: Pied Duck, 1836 (Labrador Duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius)
Plate 341: Great Auk, 1836 (Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis)
All plate images courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery CountyĀ Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing. The entire digitized collection is available for viewing and downloading here.
andulkaphoto
gummygunk
discoholicmusic
2087
prguitarman
amandla
blakekathryn
dailybridgerton
