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.
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| 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 |
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| Audubon - American Stork |
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| Audubon - Anhinga d'Amérique |
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| Audubon - Baltimore Oriole |
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| Audubon - Barn owl |
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| Audubon - Barnacle goose |
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| Audubon - Bécassine des marais |
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| Audubon - Bird of Washington - misidentified juvenile Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
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| Audubon - Brown pelican |
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| Audubon - Carolina parrots |
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| Audubon - Chevalier grivelé |
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| Audubon - Cygne |
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| Audubon - Faucon |
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| Audubon - Ferruginous mocking bird |
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| Audubon - Flamand rose |
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| Audubon - Florida jay |
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| Audubon - Geai, pie, casse-noix |
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| Audubon - Geai bleu |
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| Audubon - Golden winged Woodpecker |
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| Audubon - Grand corbeau |
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| Audubon - Grand duc de Virginie |
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| Audubon - Grand pic |
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| Audubon - Grand pingouin |
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| Adubon - Great blue heron |
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| Audubon - Grèbe huppé |
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| Audubon - Green heron |
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| Audubon - Herring gull |
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| Audubon - Ibis falcinelle |
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| Audubon - Ibis |
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| Audubon - Ivory billed woodpecker |
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| Audubon - King duck |
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| Audubon - Kittiwake gull |
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| Audubon - Loggerhead Shrike |
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| Audubon - Long-billed curlew |
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| Audubon - Macareux moine |
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| Audubon - Meadow lark |
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| Audubon - Mocking birds |
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| Audubon - owls |
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| Audubon - Pelican |
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| Audubon - Pigeons migrateur |
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| Audubon - Plover |
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| Audubon - Prothonotary Warbler |
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| Audubon - Purple Grackle or Common Crow Blackbird |
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| Audubon - Purple heron |
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| Audubon - Red-headed duck |
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| Audubon - Red-shouldered hawk |
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| Audubon - Redwinged blackbird |
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| Audubon - Ruddy duck |
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| Audubon - Ruffled grouse |
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| Audubon - Sea eagle |
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| Audubon - Spatule rose |
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| Audubon - Sterne arctique |
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| Audubon - Summer red bird |
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| Audubon - Towhee bunting |
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| Audubon - White-throated sparrow |
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| Audubon - Wild turquey |
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| Audubon - Worm eating warbler |
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| Audubon - Yellow shank |
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| Audubon - yellow crowned heron |
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.
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| 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)
« 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
Some links
Audubon.org
Audubon
Aububon house (Key West)
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| Audubon - Snow egret |
« 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