{"id":1321,"date":"2011-04-26T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2011-05-03T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:38:44","slug":"the-art-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/the-art-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is the birthday of one of the most influential natural science artists; John James Audubon (1785-1851). Known for his illustrations of North American birds in natural settings as well as natural history notes for each, Audubon influenced many generations of naturalists, including Charles Darwin. My grandparents hung two large reproductions of plates from his Birds of America series in our family cottage, and they are some of my earliest memories regarding art.<\/p>\n<p>As an homage to John James Audubon, I thought I&#8217;d share a photo of the American Kestrel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1322\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1322\" title=\"American Kestrel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/American-Kestrel20071214.jpg\" alt=\"American Kestrel in tree with red brick background\" width=\"502\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/American-Kestrel20071214.jpg 502w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/American-Kestrel20071214-386x500.jpg 386w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/American-Kestrel20071214-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Kestrel - Falco sparverius<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Audubon included this species in his account, and it&#8217;s one of my favourite images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web4.audubon.org\/bird\/BoA\/BOA_index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1323\" title=\"The American Sparrow Hawk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Audobon-Sparrow-Hawk.jpg\" alt=\"The American Sparrow Hawk - John James Audubon\" width=\"313\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Audobon-Sparrow-Hawk.jpg 313w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Audobon-Sparrow-Hawk-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to John James Audubon there are a lot more people interested in the natural world. If you&#8217;ve been inspired by his work, why not <a href=\"http:\/\/support.audubon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">make a donation to the National Audubon Society<\/a> as a birthday present!<\/p>\n<p>Must click &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/logos\/2011\/audubon11-hp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s tribute to Audubon<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of one of the most influential natural science artists; John James Audubon (1785-1851). Known for his illustrations of North American birds in natural settings as well as natural history notes for each, Audubon influenced many generations of naturalists, including Charles Darwin. My grandparents hung two large reproductions of plates from his <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/the-art-of-birds\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,47,17],"tags":[257,49,258],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-photography","tag-american-kestrel","tag-bird","tag-illustration","category-256-id","category-47-id","category-17-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}