TY - BOOK AU - Kaufman,Kenn TI - The birds that Audubon missed: discovery and desire in the American wilderness SN - 9781668007594 PY - 2024///] CY - New York PB - Avid Reader Press KW - Ornithology KW - United States KW - History KW - Birds KW - Identification N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370) and index; Prologue: A song in Labrador -- The undescribed world -- Names and numbers -- Channeling the illustrator : when the dream came -- A thicket of thrushes -- Channeling the illustrator : the feather problem -- Hidden identities -- Feuding in Philadelphia -- Channeling the illustrator : double vision -- The fugitive warblers -- Channeling the illustrator : all those plants -- Florida on the edge -- Channeling the illustrator : the size of the challenge -- Strangers on the shore -- Channeling the illustrator : materials and methods -- Lost in Texas -- Abundant life -- The big (small) do-over -- A shifting horizon -- Channeling the illustrator : vision impossible -- The search never ends N2 - "Naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world"-- ER -