The Birds of America [SEP] illustrator
The Birds of America
The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. Not all of the specimens illustrated in the work were collected by Audubon himself, some were sent to him by John Kirk Townsend who had collected them on Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's 1834 expedition with Thomas Nuttall. 
The work consists of 435 hand-coloured
Robb, Leslie. A. (2011) Greater prairie-chicken. "In:" Poole, A. (editor): "The Birds of North America Online" Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
External links.
- Comparative Analysis between the Heath Hen and Greater Prairie Chicken
- Birds of a Very Different Feather – Article by Tom Dunlop, "Martha's Vineyard Magazine", Sep./Oct. 2004.
- All About Birds retrieved 11 February 2007
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081110122455/http://www.heathhen.webs.com/