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John James Audubon was born in 1785 in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo now Haiti. The son of a French naval officer and a Creole woman, he was educated in France and in 1803 came to the Audubon estate, Mill Grove, near Philadelphia. There he spent much of his time observing birds and making the first American bird-banding experiments. In 1808 he married Lucy Bakewell, whose faith and support were large f...see more »



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