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Tag: John James Audubon

New on Galaxy of Images … For Wild Bird Feeding Month

This plate from John James Audubon’s The birds of America: from drawings made in the United States and their territories, 1840-1844 depicts the Hudsonian Godwit, or Limosa haemastica. As you might suspect, they tend to breed near the Hudson Bay, as well as farther north in Canada and even as far as Alaska, and then migrating to South America.