According to nationaldayarchives.com, "It’s for the birds. It’s also for us. Earth has 10,000 species of birds, and the work of avian conservationists preserves them from extinction threats. National Audubon Day celebrates the life work of one such bird watcher, French-American naturalist John James Audubon, one of the most well-known ornithologists. Audubon studied American birds and illustrated them in their natural habitats. The cream of the crop in ornithological texts is his book The Birds of America, a magnum opus of 435 life-sized and hand-colored prints of 497 kinds of birds. Audubon left an enduring conservation legacy. The National Audubon Society appeared in 1905 in his honor to promote and protect the habitats that support the world’s birds. Thanks to Audubon biologists, for example, the last wild California Condor was captured in 1987 in hopes that captive breeding would save the species from extinction. Mission successful so far. The first chick was born in 1988, and numbers grew from 22 captive birds in 1987 to the 2017 count of 463 condors in captivity and in the wild."
The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon
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