John James Audubon was an American artist and naturalist best known for his detailed paintings of North American birds. Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter ... The snowy egret—and its slightly larger cousin, the great egret—were similarly imperiled by the late 1800s, when fashionable ...