30261: Lally (reply) Re: 30259: re 30257 Labrom asks questions on Audubon (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Reynald Lally <concordehaiti@yahoo.com>

Audubon was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the illegitimate son of a 
French sea captain and plantation owner and his French mistress. Early on, he 
was raised by his stepmother, Mrs. Audubon, in Nantes, France, and took a 
lively interest in birds, nature, drawing, and music. In 1803, at the age of 
18, he was sent to America, in part to escape conscription into the Emperor 
Napoleon’s army. He lived on the family-owned estate at Mill Grove, near 
Philadelphia, where he hunted, studied and drew birds, and met his wife, Lucy 
Bakewell. While there, he conducted the first known bird-banding experiment in 
North America, tying strings around the legs of Eastern Phoebes; he learned 
that the birds returned to the very same nesting sites each year.

This was from www.audubon.org/

Reynald