Photo Credits

The publisher acknowledges with thanks the courtesy of all of the contemporary artists illustrated in the Introduction and of the following organizations in supplying color transparencies:

Brand Photography (John Ruthven, “Swallow-TailedKites”); Brownstone Press (George McLean, “Snowy Owl Above Walter’s Creek”); Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology (Allan Brooks, “Passenger Pigeon”; Louis Agassiz Fuertes, “Goshawk”); M.F. Feheley Arts Company, Ltd. (J. Fenwick Lansdowne, “Anna’s Hummingbird”); Frame House Gallery, Inc. (Ray Harm, “Barred Owl,” © 1981 FHG; Charles Harper, “Bob White Family,” © 1970 FHG; Richard Younger, “Bob White,” © 1975 FHG); Library Company of Philadelphia (Alexander Wilson, “Herons and Bitterns”); Donald Leo Malick, “Martial Eagle and Ground Hornbill,” © 1978 DLM); Mill Pond Press, Inc. (Robert Bateman, “Vantage Point—American Eagle,” © 1980 RB; Ken Carlson, “Golden Eagle and Magpie,” © 1978 KC; Maynard Reece, “Dark Sky—Ruffed Grouse,” © 1981 MR; Roger Tory Peterson, “Mexican Quail,” © 1973 RTP, “Great Horned Owl,” © 1974 RTP, “Snowy Owl,” © 1976 RTP, “Puffins,” © 1979 RTP; Peter Scott, “Canada Geese Coming to the Marsh,” © 1980 PS); University of Minnesota, James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History (Francis Lee Jaques, “Golden Twilight: Baldpates”); Pagurian Press, Ltd. (Terence Shortt, “Bald Eagle”); R.A.R.E. Inc. (Guy Tudor, “Rufous-throated Antbird and White-plumed Antbird”); Regency House Art, Inc. (Guy Coheleach, “Golden Eagle”); Setaol, Inc. (Glen Loates, “Blue Jays”); Wild Wings, Inc. (Harry Curieux Adamson, “October Interlude—Mallards”; Owen J. Gromme, “By the Roadside—Ruffed Grouse”; David Hagerbaumer, “Out from the Birch—Ruffed Grouse”; David A. Maass, “Early Winter Morning—Bobwhite”).

The publisher wishes to express its gratitude both to the National Audubon Society for making its Elephant Folio edition of Audubon’s Birds of America available and to George Roos for photographing it.

Frontispiece courtesy of The White House Collection, Washington, D.C.