John James Audubon (1785–1851)

• Born Jean-Jacques Rabin.
• Was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.
• His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America.
• His major work, a color-plate book titled The Birds of America (1827–1839).
• Audubon is also known for identifying 25 new species.
• His name adorns a large number of towns, neighborhoods, and streets across the United States.
• Audubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti).
• He played flute and violin.
• The displayed painting is a crop from John James Audubon, Golden Eye Duck, Plate 342, c. 1827-1838.
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