In December — a prime season for those big coffee table books that shoppers like to give as gifts — maybe we should raise a glass to bird artist John James Audubon, who helped popularize the genre ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Frank Gallo, former associate director of the Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center in Milford, has written a new birding guide called “Birding in Connecticut,” which he presented and signed at ...

For better and worse, the name Audubon has become almost synonymous with birds. The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to 1838, catalogued ...

Birds of America by John James Audubon goes on the display in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) In 2020, Ohio birder, author, editor and illustrator Kenn Kaufman took on a COVID project unlike most with "The Birds That ...

Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould. Elizabeth Gould’s crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), Volume 5, Plate 22, from John Gould’s “The Birds ...

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and lifelike ...

After 121 years of environmental advocacy, the group formerly known as Portland Audubon is changing its name to the “Bird Alliance of Oregon.” The conservation group took its original name from John ...

Advocate columnist Danny Heitman will present a talk titled "Great Bird Books" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the EBR Main Library, 7711 Goodood Blvd. The program, hosted by the Baton Rouge Audubon Society, ...