John James Audubon, born Jean-Jacques Rabin in Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue, was a French American artist, naturalist and ornithologist who lived from 1785 to 1851 and set out to make a complete pictorial record of every bird species in North America. His major achievement, The Birds of America, published between 1827 and 1838, presented 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 bird species, accompanied by the five-volume text Ornithological Biography, and it remains often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced. His legacy is complicated by documented instances of scientific misconduct and by his involvement in slavery.
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His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America.
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