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  John James Audubon - Biography
He was the illegitimate son of Jean Audubon, a French merchant and sea captain, and Jeanne Rabine, a chambermaid who died in a slave uprising shortly after his birth.
At age 18, Audubon was sent to Pennsylvania to avoid conscription in Napolean's army and to manage family farm property at Mill Grove, near Philadelphia.
By the time Audubon and his four assistants embarked on their journey up the Missouri River, in 1843, to collect information and images of western mammals, he had drawn 61 species.
www.bbhc.org /audubon/1-NewYork-Bio.html   (279 words)

  
 About Audubon
Although Audubon had no role in the organization that bears his name, there is a connection: George Bird Grinnell, one of the founders of the early Audubon Society in the late 1800s, was tutored by Lucy Audubon, John James’s widow.
Audubon was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and plantation owner and his French mistress.
Audubon was quite successful in business for a while, but hard times hit, and in 1819 he was briefly jailed for bankruptcy.
www.audubon.org /nas/jja.html   (719 words)

  
 Audubon WatchList - Henslow's Sparrow
A priority of Audubon's Policy efforts has been to maintain and increase the conservation provisions of the Farm Bill which pays farmers to leave grassland habitats unplowed and unmowed, eventually providing tens of thousands of acres of excellent Henslow's Sparrow habitat in portions of the U.S. where the species occurs.
Audubon's Important Bird Area program is a vital tool for the conservation of Henslow's Sparrow as well as other species.
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is one of the longest-running citizen-science monitoring programs in the world and has helped to follow changes in the numbers and distribution of Henslow's Sparrow.
audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=104   (908 words)

  
 Audubon National Wildlife Refuge
Audubon National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located in west-central North Dakota and is part of a landscape marked by numerous wetlands or "potholes" that remained after glaciers melted more than 10,000 years ago.
The Audubon office and visitor center is located 3 miles north of Coleharbor, North Dakota on U.S. Highway 83 and 1 mile east.
Although Audubon NWR is managed primarily for waterfowl, resident wildlife species also benefit from the food and cover produced through habitat management techniques.
www.fws.gov /refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=62540   (290 words)

  
 Audubon Timeline
Audubon lost some ground in the 1910s, when the Audubon Warden program suffered from a lack of funding and wardens were withdrawn from Florida.
Audubon expanded its scientific research programs and became heavily involved in the effort to ban the use of pesticides that were suspected of causing population failures in eagles, ospreys, brown pelicans, and other "end-of-chain" consumers.
Audubon continues its commitment to the Bald Eagle by serving on the Southeast Bald Eagle Recovery Team to establish protection for the eagle once it is removed from the endangered species list, and by rehabilitating and releasing injured eagles at Audubon's Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland.
www.audubonofflorida.org /main/timeline.htm   (2968 words)

  
 Audubon on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was named after John James Audubon, the ornithologist, who studied the birds of the area in 1829.
Audubon's Wilderness Palette: The Birds of Canada A Superb Exhibition being Presented at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Sea and Sage Audubon Society member Nancy Kenyon uses her guide book and binoculars to identify a Kingfisher at Irvine Lake during the annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird count.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/audubonu1s1.asp   (632 words)

  
 Population and Habitat Homepage
Much of the destruction of the natural world we see across the globe today is "fallout" from the human population explosion that has occurred over the last 50 years.
That's why Audubon is committed to increasing support for international family planning and why we have worked on population and habitat issues for more than 25 years.
Audubon and our partners in conservation know these are global problems that transcend national boundaries.
www.audubonpopulation.org   (417 words)

  
 California Audubon Chapter Map
La Purisima Audubon Society: Serving the Nipomo area of San Luis Obispo County and the Lompoc, Santa Maria, and Santa Ynez Valleys of Santa Barbara County.
Palomar Audubon Society: Serving the north San Diego County communities of Escondido, Poway, Ramona, Valley Center, Rancho Bernardo, and Fallbrook, and extending to the south Riverside County communities of Temecula, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, and surrounding areas.
Yolo Audubon Society: Serving the communities of northeastern Solano County, southern Sutter County, and all of Yolo County.
www.audubon.org /chapter/ca/ca/chapter_map.htm   (845 words)

  
 Starr Ranch Sanctuary Home
Starr Ranch is a 4,000 acre Audubon California sanctuary in southeast Orange County, California.
All native habitat and wildlife is becoming rare in southern California and the Ranch protects some especially endangered vegetation types such as coastal sage scrub and native perennial grassland as well as species such as many-stemmed dudleya (a plant) and the California gnatcatcher (a bird).
Audubon offers intern positions to college level applicants that seek to gain practical experience in field research or education.
www.starrranch.org   (710 words)

  
 Audubon International's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Audubon International strives to educate, assist, and inspire millions of people from all walks of life to protect and sustain the land, water, wildlife, and natural resources around them.
In the more than two dozen countries on five continents, Audubon International members are cleaning up streams, protecting common and endangered wildlife, restoring wetlands, conserving water and energy, and educating youth about the value of good environmental stewardship.
With Audubon International information and guidance, individuals from all walks of life are making a difference in their communities.
www.audubonintl.org   (119 words)

  
 Welcome to Audubon Arkansas!
National Audubon Society and conservationists around the globe are celebrating the announcement that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker has been found in eastern Arkansas.
Audubon Adventures is an environmental education program for children in grades 3 to 6.
Audubon announces the opening of registration for summer nature camps and workshops for adults, youth, families and educators.
www.ar.audubon.org   (237 words)

  
 index
Each year, Audubon staff and students have the opportunity to nominate students that have displayed a random act of kindness.
Audubon Kindergarten classes walked to Comiskey Park on October 21 as part of their study of Fall.
Audubon 4th grader, Maria, donated 11 1/2 inches of her hair to Locks for Love, an organization that provides wigs for those with cancer and other diseases.
www.audubon.dubuque.k12.ia.us   (992 words)

  
 Audubon Area Community Services, Inc.
Audubon Area is one of the premier human/family and community services agencies in Kentucky.
Audubon's central office is located in Owensboro, Kentucky, a known historic rivertown on the banks of the Ohio River.
Audubon Area primarily serves 34 Western Kentucky counties, from the Ohio River to the Kentucky-Tennessee border and from Mammoth Cave to the Mississippi River.
www.audubon-area.com   (225 words)

  
 Audubon Dallas
Audubon Dallas relies on the involvement and support of individuals like you to conserve the birds, wildlife, and natural ecosystems of the Dallas area.
The mission of Audubon Dallas is the conservation of birds and other wildlife, the protection of habitat and bio diversity, and the provision of education and opportunities for our entire community to observe and appreciate birds and nature.
Audubon Dallas was incorporated in 1973 as a chapter of the National Audubon Society.
www.audubondallas.org   (776 words)

  
 Audubon: Birds & Science
Audubon's science team has pooled the best data available since Silent Spring to report on their overall health.
Audubon At Home now helps you find local Audubon resources and other organizations and agencies involved in home-based conservation with its Regional Resources page.
Audubon At Home brings conservation to the kitchen and discusses edible activism in a number of essays written in conjunction with Audubon magazine features.
www.audubon.org /bird   (560 words)

  
 Audubon California - Building a culture of conservation in the Golden State
Audubon and other partners met with Rancho Mission Viejo leadership to discuss ways in which they could modify their proposed development to maximize habitat and other values such as habitat connectivity and protections for certain species, including the endangered arroyo toad.
Audubon introduces a series of workshops on ways to enhance wildlife habitat, water quality and soil protection on farm and ranchland in Imperial County.
Audubon is celebrating its centennial year of protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat that supports them.
www.audubon-ca.org   (717 words)

  
 Audubon WatchList - Swainson's Hawk
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is one of the longest-running citizen-science monitoring programs in the world and has helped to follow changes in the numbers and distribution of Swainson's Hawk.
Audubon's Important Bird Areas program is a vital tool for the conservation of Swainson's Hawks as well as other species.
A project of Audubon and the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, eBird is the world's first comprehensive online bird monitoring program: http://www.audubon.org/bird/ebird/index.html.
audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=199   (1200 words)

  
 Audubon Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Keith Hobson, a research scientist for the Canadian Wildlife Service, stands in a cathedral of fl spruce and jack pine, a highly sensitive recording device shaped like a short stack of pancakes mounted on a tripod in front of him.
The forest seems muted by screens of needled branches, the dampening effect of the moss, and.
Described as a "phantom of the northern forest" by Kenn Kaufman in the Birds of North America, the great gray owl is a year-round resident of the boreal forest.
magazine.audubon.org   (203 words)

  
 Audubon Trail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Audubon Trail is a section of the Colorado River Trail system which will eventually traverse the Grand Valley (in which Grand Junction is located) and extend westward to Moab, Utah.
The Audubon Trail is a 1.5 mile paved path suitable for hiking, jogging, biking, rollerblading, and wheelchair use.
The Audubon Trail was constructed as a joint effort on the part of the Grand Valley Audubon Society, Mesa County, the City of Grand Junction, and private landowners, with a grant from the Colorado Department of Parks and Outdoor Recreation "State Trails Program," which is funded by the Colorado Lottery.
www.audubongv.org /audubon_trail.htm   (427 words)

  
 Connecticut Audubon Society
Connecticut Audubon Society operates the historic Birdcraft Museum in Fairfield, Nature Centers in Fairfield, Glastonbury, and Pomfret, and a Coastal Center in Milford.
The Connecticut Audubon Society EcoTravel office in Essex offers travel opportunities to unique natural history destinations around the state, nation, and world to bring people together with their natural world through firsthand experience.
These sanctuaries, which are open from dawn to dusk throughout the year, serve as outdoor classrooms and provide visitors with hands-on opportunities to observe wildlife and enjoy the beauty and serenity of our state’s diverse natural habitats.
www.ctaudubon.org   (340 words)

  
 Audubon Texas: Get Involved   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
Audubon Texas relies on the involvement and support of individuals like you to conserve the birds, wildlife and natural ecosystems of Texas.
Become a member of the National Audubon Society.
tx.audubon.org /get_involved.htm   (325 words)

  
 Debs Park Audubon Center
Desde 1998, Audubon ha colaborado con la ciudad de Los Angeles y las comunidades locales para construir el centro de Audubon en el Parque Debs.
Since 1998, Audubon has been working with the City of Los Angeles and the communities of Northeast and East Los Angeles to develop the the Audubon Center at Debs Park.
Over 25,000 kids, mostly Latino, live within 2 miles of the Audubon Center at Debs Park, with working parents who are simply too busy for trips to the nearby mountains or the beach.
ca.audubon.org /debs_park.htm   (382 words)

  
 Audubon Missouri
Audubon calls for passage of the NAISA as Potomac River is invaded by non-native species.
Or discover how Audubon is opening new eyes to nature through its nationwide network of Centers including Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center in Joplin and the Audubon Center on the Mississippi River in St. Louis.
Whether it is the Birdathon, membership in the John James and Lucy Audubon Society or including us in your estate planning, you can be sure that your gift will make a lasting difference, not only for today, but for future generations.
mo.audubon.org   (326 words)

  
 Audubon Texas: Section: Page
Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
Our national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences.
Thanks to contributions to Audubon Foundation of Texas through Earthshare of Texas, chapters in Texas will receive grants totaling $6,000.
www.tx.audubon.org   (180 words)

  
 Audubon
The Audubon Quartet came into existence at the 1974 session of the Lenox Quartet Chamber Music Seminar held in Binghamton, New York.
She can be heard on disc as a member of the Audubon Quartet on the RCA, Telarc, Centaur, Orion and Opus One labels.
Her recordings with the Audubon Quartet are on the Centaur and Composers Recordings labels.
www.stantonmgt.com /Artists/audubon_quartet.htm   (1348 words)

  
 Audubon-NJ.com - Audubon New Jersey 08106   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If you are able to get this information from the Borough Hall during their working hours and send it in, it will be presented in a new section of this website.
As long as the Borough of Audubon refuses to get with the program that other towns have done and not give us an "Official Website" we will have to rely on each other for information.
If you know of a military member from Audubon or the surronding towns that is currently serving in Iraq, Afghanistan or recovering from battle related injuries in any military hospital, please let them know who they are.
www.audubon-nj.com   (412 words)

  
 Welcome to Audubon Canyon Ranch!
Audubon Canyon Ranch (ACR) is a system of wildlife sanctuaries in Northern California with a three-part mission:
Education: Audubon Canyon Ranch educates children and adults about the natural environment and the need to protect it, through the use and enjoyment of ACR sanctuaries,
Research: Audubon Canyon Ranch supports research and conservation efforts that enhance the preservation and management of the natural resources of our sanctuaries.
www.egret.org   (82 words)

  
 Environmental Education Internships at Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm
At Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm, we are proud of our intern program and proud of our interns.
Aullwood is an Audubon Center operated by the National Audubon Society.
The organic garden is part of the summer/fall routine as well with watering, planting, weeding and harvesting all taking time and giving rewards.
aullwood.center.audubon.org /2interns.html   (941 words)

  
 Buena Vista Audubon
Kathy is Audubon's pointperson on the Salton Sea.
Long active with San Diego Audubon, including a stint as chapter president, she moved to Flagstaff Arizona in October 2003 after her house in Julian burned down in the Cedar fire.
She "still worried about the Sea, and after 6 years of waiting for someone to organize an Audubon campaign to save the Sea I finally realized that if I didn't step forward to do it, it might not get done".
www.bvaudubon.org   (279 words)

  
 Case Histories
At the urging of the Cullman Audubon Society, The Wildlife Center released two owls, one male and one female, into the wilderness of the 900-acre campus, part of which is being cultivated for use as a trail by Audubon Society members.
The largest of the hawks native to Alabama, the red-tailed hawk is often seen soaring smoothly overhead, wheeling and turning in the rising currents of air with scarcely a flap of the wings.
The Audubon Encyclopedia of North American Birds states that the record for longevity is currently held by a bird that lived at the National Zoo in Washington for 21 years, and one month.
www.awrc.org /case.htm   (1733 words)

  
 St Louis Audubon Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The St. Louis Audubon Society has enjoyed a long and distinguished history since it began as the St. Louis Bird Club in 1916.
In 1948, when the National Audubon Society decided to organize a network of local chapters, the St. Louis Bird Club joined immediately and became the first of the now over 500 chapters.
With about 2000 members in the metropolitan area, the St. Louis Audubon Society ranks among the largest chapters in the United States.
www.stlouisaudubon.org   (669 words)

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