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Audubon's Birds of America book
By the Lost Bird Project
Take a tour of legendary naturalist John Audubon's Birds of America book, which last sold for $11.5 million and is again up for auction. It's currently housed in the rare book library at Cornell University and depicts many bird species that are now lost forever due to human folly: the Great Auk, Labrador Duck, Heath Hen, Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon and the Eskimo Curlew. Are Audubon's drawings art or science?
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