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John Audubon
This John James Audubon stamp commemorates John James Audubon,
French-American ornithologist, naturalist and artist. Born in present
day Haiti, Audubon was raised near Nantes, France. His family emigrated
to the United States in the early 1800s to avoid the Napoleonic Wars.
He sought to paint and document every bird in North America. Much of his
artwork was completed with watercolors and pastel crayons, instead of
the popular oil paint. The stamp features an image of two black-throated
magpie-jays, also known as Collie’s magpie-jays, though Audubon’s original
artwork claimed they were “Columbia jays.”
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