Anyone who enjoys bird watching surely knows about the Audubon Society and the man who first captured the amazing beauty of birds, John James Audubon . Born in 1785, John James Audubon was born on asugar plantationin France and always had an interest in birds. As a young boy, he always enjoyed walks through the woods where he would draw pictures of the birds that he seen. This led to him being well known for his portraits of birds and that history can be found at the John James Audubon State Park in western Kentucky.
Audubon knew that he could do a better job of depicting the birds than that of other artists and he set out to do just that. Audubon was also the first person to begin banding birds in order to keep some record of where they …