John James Audubon

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John James Audubon
Historical Figure
Timeline:	OTL
Nationality:	United States, born in France
Religion:	Catholicism
Date of Birth:	1785
Date of Death:	1851
Cause of Death:	Natural causes
Occupation:	Artist, Author, Ornithologist
Spouse:	Lucy Bakewell
Timeline:	Atlantis
Appearance(s):	"Audubon in Atlantis"
Nationality:	French resident of an unnamed state in Terranova
Timeline:	"Birdwitching" (posthumous mention)

John James Audubon (1785–1851) was a French-born American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America.

John James Audubon in Atlantis

John James Audubon was a French Terranovan ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of northern Terranova and Atlantis. In 1843, he and his friend Edward Harris traveled to Atlantis to catalogue the honker, a species of bird native to the continent. For Audubon, this was very personal excursion, as he'd become painfully aware of his advancing age and declining health.

After an uncomfortable sea journey (Audubon was prone to sea-sickness) through the Bay of Mexico and up the Hesperian Gulf, Audubon and Harris arrived at Avalon. After dining with Audubon's Altantean publisher, Gordon Coates, the two Terranovans gathered their provisions, and made for the interior of the continent. They passed through the town of Bideford, and made the acquaintance of Lehonti Kent, a member of the House of Universal Devotion, a religion that had recently blossomed in Atlantis. After sharing his religious beliefs with the two ornithologists in great detail, he directed them to the area around the town of Thetford as a possible place to find honkers. The two continued on, sleeping out of doors, and cataloging various other birds, including the red-crested eagle, the Atlantean national bird. Finally, Audubon and Harris discovered a flock of honkers. Audubon killed one (with a measure of regret), and drew what may have been his most life-like sketch.

Audubon was pained by the incredible growth of the human population of Atlantis, and the damage it inflicted upon the ecology of the continent. It was not long after his own death that the honker was presumed extinct.  Aubudon himself was remembered with a measure of fondness in Atlantis.  He died the year before the outbreak of the Atlantean Servile Insurrection. 

v • d • e Atlantis Books Opening Atlantis ("New Hastings", "Avalon", "Nouveau Redon") • The United States of Atlantis • Liberating Atlantis Short Stories "Audubon in Atlantis" • "The Scarlet Band" POV Characters Edward Radcliffe • Henry Radcliffe • Richard Radcliffe • William Radcliff • Red Rodney Radcliffe • Victor Radcliff • Roland Kersauzon • Frederick Radcliff • Leland Newton • Jeremiah Stafford • John James Audubon • James Walton Secondary Characters François Kersauzon • Earl of Warwick • Ethel Radcliffe • Blaise Black • Charles Cornwallis • Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint Veran • Meg Radcliff • Custis Cawthorne • Isaac Fenner • George III of Britain • Louis XVI of France • Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette • Habbakuk Biddiscombe • Nicholas Radcliff • Helen Radcliff • Lorenzo • Athelstan Helms Geography Atlantis Events Battle of the Strand • Avalon • French and Spanish War • Atlantean War of Independence • Atlantean Servile Insurrection

John James Audubon in "Birdwitching"

During a Yule Bird Count competition, Fred O'Neill magicked a Carolina Parakeet to Fernwood. At first Lucy Parker and her son Jesse couldn't identify it until they came across a painting by John James Audubon.