Blogue Axel Evigiran

Blogue Axel Evigiran
La dispersion est, dit-on, l'ennemi des choses bien faites. Et quoi ? Dans ce monde de la spécialisation extrême, de l'utilitaire et du mesurable à outrance y aurait-il quelque mal à se perdre dans les labyrinthes de l'esprit dilettante ?


A la vérité, rien n’est plus savoureux que de muser parmi les sables du farniente, sans autre esprit que la propension au butinage, la légèreté sans objet prédéterminé.

Broutilles essentielles. Ratages propices aux heures languides...


20 juil. 2013

John James (Jean-Jacques) Audubon - Birds

Voir un ornithologue poser fièrement avec son fusil, plutôt qu’avec une paire de jumelles, apparaît singulier à l’œil contemporain. 
« Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them », écrivait-il.

Autre temps autres mœurs. 

Audubon - Aigrette à ventre blanc
« Audubon's zest for killing wild animals is jarring to modern sensibilities, especially to people who cannot reconcile hunting with the idea of conservation--the latter a cause now closely associated with the name Audubon. Today, most hunters consider themselves conservationists, and their sport has become an essential tool in the management of game and in raising money to preserve wildlife. But Audubon was a premodern man. He hunted, as everyone did then, to put meat on the table. He also hunted for sport. . . . He recognized and often speculated about the impact overhunting could have on wildlife populations. But he was never deterred. He sometimes said a day in which he killed fewer than a hundred birds was a day wasted »



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[1785 - 1851]
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Audubon - American Redstart
Audubon - American Stork
Audubon - Anhinga d'Amérique
Audubon - Baltimore Oriole
Audubon - Barn owl
Audubon - Barnacle goose
Audubon - Bécassine des marais
Audubon - Bird of Washington - misidentified juvenile Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Audubon - Brown pelican
Audubon - Carolina parrots
Audubon - Chevalier grivelé
Audubon - Cygne
Audubon - Faucon
Audubon - Ferruginous mocking bird
Audubon - Flamand rose
Audubon - Florida jay
Audubon - Geai, pie, casse-noix
Audubon - Geai bleu
Audubon - Golden winged Woodpecker
Audubon - Grand corbeau
Audubon - Grand duc de Virginie
Audubon - Grand pic
Audubon - Grand pingouin
Adubon - Great blue heron
Audubon - Grèbe huppé
Audubon - Green heron
Audubon - Herring gull
Audubon - Ibis falcinelle
Audubon - Ibis
Audubon - Ivory billed woodpecker
Audubon - King duck
Audubon - Kittiwake gull
Audubon - Loggerhead Shrike
Audubon - Long-billed curlew
Audubon - Macareux moine
Audubon - Meadow lark
Audubon - Mocking birds
Audubon - owls
Audubon - Pelican
Audubon - Pigeons migrateur
Audubon - Plover
Audubon - Prothonotary Warbler
Audubon - Purple Grackle or Common Crow Blackbird
Audubon - Purple heron
Audubon - Red-headed duck
Audubon - Red-shouldered hawk
Audubon - Redwinged blackbird
Audubon - Ruddy duck
Audubon - Ruffled grouse
Audubon - Sea eagle
Audubon - Spatule rose
Audubon - Sterne arctique
Audubon - Summer red bird
Audubon - Towhee bunting
Audubon - White-throated sparrow
Audubon - Wild turquey
Audubon - Worm eating warbler
Audubon - Yellow shank
Audubon - yellow crowned heron
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Naturaliste ; plus précisément Ornithologue, ornithologiste… Tels sont les noms de qui se voue à l’étude et l’observation des oiseaux.
Pour l’amoureux des sentes de traverses la belle expression de miroiseur, empruntée à Hubert Reeves, sonne plus juste.


Audubon était sans aucun doute les deux.   

Audubon - Portrait
« A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. »


Attributed to Audubon (see the link : Audubon quote)

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Some links

Audubon.org
Audubon
Aububon house (Key West)

Audubon - Snow egret
« As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. »

« I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. »

AUDUBON