What is The Birds of America?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Zenaida macrouraAWP17AA.jpg|thumb|Illustration of [[Mourning Dove]]s from ''The Birds of America'']] '''''The Birds of America''''' is a book by [[natural history|naturalist]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[John James Audubon]]. It includes [[illustration]]s of a wide variety of [[bird]]s of the [[United States]]. It was first published between 1827 and 1838, in [[Edinburgh]] and [[London]]. The work is of hand-coloured, life-size [[Printmaking|prints]], made from [[engraving|engraved]] plates, measuring around {{convert|39|by|26|in|cm}}. It includes images of six birds that are now [[extinct]]: [[Carolina Parakeet]], [[Passenger Pigeon]], [[Labrador Duck]], [[Great Auk]], [[Eskimo Curlew|Esquimaux Curlew]], and [[Heath Hen|Pinnated Grouse]].<ref>[http://web4.audubon.org/bird/boa/ExtinctBirds.html Birds of America By John James Audubon - Extinct Birds] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318064951/http://web4.audubon.org/bird/boa/ExtinctBirds.html |date=2012-03-18 }} from the [[National Audubon Society]]</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Birds of America}} [[Category:Biology books]] [[Category:1820s books]] [[Category:1830s books]] {{stub}}