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Drawn from Nature

Digital Exhibitions

Drawn from Nature

Art, Science, and the Study of Birds

Bibliography

Recommended Reading

Barrow, Mark V. A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Burtt, Edward H., and William E. Davis. Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

Cutright, Paul Russell, and Michael J. Brodhead. Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Farber, Paul Lawrence. The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760-1850. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1982.

Lewis, Daniel. The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. For the Birds: American Ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

Peck, Robert McCracken. A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes. New York: Published for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [by] Walker and Co., 1982.

Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: The Making of an American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Rivinus, Edward F., and E. M. Youssef. Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Rosenthal, Elizabeth J. Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2008.

Souder, William. Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America. New York: North Point Press, 2004.

00. Introduction 01. Birds of America 02. Ornithology as a Profession 03. The Collectors 04. The Audubon Societies 05. The Making of a Field Guide 06. Modern Field Guides 07. Bibliography 08. Lecture Videos

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