>”John James Audubon, a prominent 19th-century artist, naturalist and slave owner whose detailed, colourful paintings in the book The Birds of America set the g

>”John James Audubon, a prominent 19th-century artist, naturalist and slave owner whose detailed, colourful paintings in the book The Birds of America set the gold standard for generations of ornithologists.” I had no idea, and truth be told “Audubon” simply existed as a term in my mind. I never gave a second thought as to what it actually stood for. For me, “Audubon” just means birds, and nothing more. And it still does after this because the organization never showed any hints of the ideology they want to distance themselves from. Additionally, this article mentions chapters of the Audubon society dropping the name. The organization as a whole has not dropped the name, yet, at least.