The Audubon Naturalist Society is dropping the name Audubon. John James Audubon was a famous ornithologist, who was also an enslaver and a grave robber who seized the skulls of Native Americans.

Audubon's Birds, Flightless, And Soaring. November 26, 2005. By Paul Richard. There are 1,065 birds in John James Audubon's "The Birds of America," that 19th-century encyclopedic tour de force.

They decided it wouldn’t fly. After months of deliberation, the New York City Audubon Society decided to change its name, citing founder John James Audubon’s legacy of white supremacy.

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The Audubon Society was not named to honor J.J. Audubon for a life of purity. It was named over 50 years after Audubon’s death as a convenient, recognizable nationwide label for a loose ...

NYC Audubon Society drops controversial name 03:35. NEW YORK -- The New York City Audubon Society is dropping its controversial name after nearly 40 years. The organization recently voted to drop ...

Regarding the debate about the name Audubon, it isn’t just J. J. Audubon’s treatment of humans that is/was unsavory; he also was exceedingly cruel to birds, which is ironic considering the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting Street, has announced a new spotlight exhibition entitled A Feel Guide to John James Audubon's Birds of America that will be shown ...

View 340 AUDUBON, John James. Pair of lithographs with hand-coloring from Quadrupeds of America, J. T. Bowen, on wove paper American Elk - Wapiti Deer. Ca 1845. - Columbian Black-Tailed Deer. Ca 1847.