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Audubon drew more birds for “The Birds of America” in Louisiana than in any other place — which is why, when many of us open his whopper of a book, what we see looks a lot like home.

Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed as among the best ornithological studies ever produced. “I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, ...

Audubon was also a gifted painter. His life’s work in the form of the classic book ‘Birds of America’ is an invaluable documentation of both extinct species and an entire world of imagination.