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Article: The Original Birdman.(John James Audubon)
- Article from:
- Jack & Jill
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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The National Audubon Society is named after a real person, John James Audubon, who was born in what is now Haiti in 1785.
Audubon, who grew up in France, came to America and failed at several business ventures before finding his real talent as an artist specializing in pictures of the natural world, ...