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These are the stories of the birds of America - and the people who named them, ate them, studied them, and saved them.

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Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds

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On June 26, 1826, John James Audubon sat aboard the cotton schooner Delos off of Florida’s Gulf coast, en route from New Orleans to Liverpool, where he was hoping to find a publisher for his extensive portfolio of paintings of American birds.[1] On this particular day, the winds were still, leaving Audubon’s boat to…