The Insectarium, part of the Audubon Nature Institute, pays tribute to everything creepy and crawly.
The National Audubon Society has a range of apps covering mammals, flowers, mushrooms, insects and more.
He happens to be an avid bird-watcher himself, leading tours for the Seattle Audubon Society.
The National Audubon Society will be awarding him its prestigious Audubon Medal early next year.
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Elsewhere, Audubon said it was gearing up to mobilize volunteers and provide assistance as the oil reaches land.
For decades, socially conservative women joined groups like the Audubon Society, working in unison with more socially liberal members.
Gould considered Audubon to be both an influence and a rival, yet Audubon's biographers omit to mention their exchanges.
"It's the Paris-Dakar rally of birding, " says spokesman John Bianchi, of the National Audubon Society, with a straight face.
Lederer and Shaw work at nearby Shenandoah College, and they still perform as the Audubon Quartet with Takayama and a new violinist.
"Piping Plovers are not beloved everywhere, " said Ron Bourque, a former president of New York City Audubon who lives near Jamaica Bay.
But his rendering of Audubon's encounter with billions of now-extinct passenger pigeons flying wingtip-to-wingtip across the Kentucky sky for three whole days is magical.
Only after years as a luckless businessman in Kentucky and Ohio did Audubon start to peddle the drawings that were his hobby.
Ms. DORIS LEDERER (Audubon Quartet): We'd lose everything, everything that we own.
"The damage done here is real, both to the environment and to the people, " said Brian Moore, of the National Audubon Society.
Which was why, I suppose, I found what billionaire Louis Bacon had to say last night at the Audubon Gala so completely refreshing.
Two years ago, William Souder reports, the Audubon Museum in Kentucky made 250 fresh, arresting prints of snipes from an original Audubon copper plate.
"Six months ago, it was nearly impossible to imagine this day would ever come, " said Ron Forman, the Audubon Nature Institute's CEO and president.
Last night was the Audubon Society Gala, held this year in honor of hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon and crane expert George Archibald.
At a minimum, it's hard to outgrown a library whose authors range from George Washington to Arthur Miller and John James Audubon to Kurt Vonnegut.
The Kemp's ridley sea turtles had been cleaned and de-oiled at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans, and at Gulf World in Panama City, Florida.
Or contact the nation's largest bird-watching group, the American Birding Association (www.americanbirding.org), or one of 530 Audubon chapters, most of which offer outings and tours.
They were rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans.
The members of the Audubon Quartet, a top string quartet, have been ordered to pay over half a million dollars to one of their former colleagues.
He became a full-time "urban naturalist" for the Audubon Society and played a key role in the development of metropolitan Portland's regional plan for natural areas.
Charles streetcar, visit the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas or Audubon Zoo and take a brief interlude at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Sean Mahar, director of government relations for Audubon New York, said environmentalists have seen increases in the plover population since protection laws were instituted in the mid-1980s.
The Audubon Zoo is open on weekends, although the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, which lost most of its fish after the storm knocked out power, won't reopen until summer.
The Audubon Society, which is affiliated with the Louisiana Coastal Initiative, is recruiting volunteers in Florida and making its Center for Birds of Prey available for bird cleansing and rehabilitation.
Even the Clinton White House got involved: According to court documents, Leon Panetta, then chief of staff, sent a letter in 1994 to the Audubon Society in praise of the plan.
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