![]() ![]() Both were tired, cold, and miserable when an eagle flew overhead. The First SightingĪudubon first saw one on a trip up the Mississippi River with a Canadian fur trader. The bird has turned out to be unidentifiable and is rarely reliably reported in the wild. ![]() ![]() Audubon is remembered today for creating some of the most spectacular paintings of North American wildlife ever made, identifying 25 new species and a number of sub-species of birds and lending his name to the Audubon Society, an environmental organization dedicated to conservation. His spotting of that noble bird one morning, though, left a blemish on his legacy, stirred up a years-long controversy among ornithologists, and led some people to brand him a liar or a nut. That’s John James Audubon, the American naturalist and artist, writing in The Birds of America. “It was in the month of February, 1814, that I obtained the first sight of this noble bird, and never shall I forget the delight which it gave me.” ![]()
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