New at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg is “Audubon’s Birds of America,” a collection of 46 prints on loan from the National Museums of Scotland. In the early-to-mid 19th century ...

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young ...

Nearly 200 years later, the Audubon prints are coming to life once again, thanks to our vibrant digital library. Click through the images below to read Audubon’s writings on each species and access a ...