John James Audubon’s Birds of America prints showcase 435 life-size, hand colored species of birds with incredible detail. The library is more than just books, and WUWM’s Books and Beyond series with ...

In December — a prime season for those big coffee table books that shoppers like to give as gifts — maybe we should raise a glass to bird artist John James Audubon, who helped popularize the genre ...

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and lifelike ...

Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould. Elizabeth Gould’s crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), Volume 5, Plate 22, from John Gould’s “The Birds ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

AUDUBON’S AMERICA—Edited by Donald Culross Peattie—Houghton Mifflin ($6). John James Audubon migrated up & down early 19th-Century North America about as freely as the birds he painted. When he was ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) In 2020, Ohio birder, author, editor and illustrator Kenn Kaufman took on a COVID project unlike most with "The Birds That ...

Advocate columnist Danny Heitman will present a talk titled "Great Bird Books" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the EBR Main Library, 7711 Goodood Blvd. The program, hosted by the Baton Rouge Audubon Society, ...

I had just retired, with no immediate plans for travel. The calendar was open, primed for an adventure. But where? The answer, I realized, was right in my lap. For a week I’d been reading a new book ...