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Audubon

with reference to birds or pictures of them, from U.S. naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851).

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Audubon, NJ -- U.S. borough in New Jersey
Population (2000): 9182
Housing Units (2000): 3813
Land area (2000): 1.490030 sq. miles (3.859161 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.015327 sq. miles (0.039696 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.505357 sq. miles (3.898857 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02200
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.890563 N, 75.070423 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 08106
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Audubon, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 6549
Housing Units (2000): 2457
Land area (2000): 4.482383 sq. miles (11.609318 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016083 sq. miles (0.041656 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.498466 sq. miles (11.650974 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03544
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.130948 N, 75.425742 W
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Audubon, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 2382
Housing Units (2000): 1107
Land area (2000): 1.758938 sq. miles (4.555629 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.758938 sq. miles (4.555629 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03655
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.720323 N, 94.928422 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50025
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Audubon, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 445
Housing Units (2000): 191
Land area (2000): 0.582492 sq. miles (1.508648 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005706 sq. miles (0.014778 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.588198 sq. miles (1.523426 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02728
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.861591 N, 95.978102 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56511
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Audubon -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 6830
Housing Units (2000): 2995
Land area (2000): 443.130991 sq. miles (1147.703950 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.444505 sq. miles (1.151262 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 443.575496 sq. miles (1148.855212 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.666458 N, 94.916461 W
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Audubon

Audubon may refer to:

Audubon (book)

Audubon is a non-fiction book written by Constance Rourke (1785-1851). It retroactively received the Newbery Honor award for the year 1937.

Rourke's book is a biography of ornithologist and painter John James Audubon.

Audubon (Scott County, Kentucky)

Audubon is one of a pair of Greek Revival houses built across from each other on Moore's Mill Pike in Scott County, Kentucky. The property was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973.

Audubon (magazine)

Audubon is the flagship journal of the National Audubon Society. It is profusely illustrated and focuses on subjects related to nature, with a special emphasis on birds. New issues are published bi-monthly for society members. An active blog called The Perch produces daily updates on issues also. In 2011, Audubon Magazine received an Utne Reader Independent Press Award for Best Environment Coverage.

Usage examples of "audubon".

As Audubon always did, he gathered enthusiasm when he thought about the goal and not the means by which he had to accomplish it.

Only the stuffed quail and artichokes and asparagus and the really excellent champagne in the first-class galley went some little way toward reconciling Audubon to being stuck on the steamship an extra day.

But they were enough to send Audubon and a few other unfortunates running for the rail.

Harris got into his night-shirt, pissed in the chamber pot under his bed, blew out the oil lamp Audubon had left burning, and lay down.

As soon as Audubon said that, as soon as he thought about his stomach, he gulped.

He and Audubon and Harris clasped hands and clapped one another on the back when the gangplank went down and passengers could disembark.

Thanks to his thoughts about such things, Audubon had stayed in some places more comfortable than those where he might have if he made his own arrangements.

Avalon, Audubon might almost have traveled through the French or English countryside.

Harris ambled away, Audubon set the scarlet-cheeked woodpecker on the grass and walked over to one of the pack horses.

But when Audubon saw the Green Ridge Mountains rising over the eastern horizon, the temptation to leave the main road got too strong to resist.

Curious, Audubon stopped and waited by some poppies for a closer look at the insects.

The throaty hoots of an Atlantean ground owl woke Audubon somewhere near midnight.

Even without those tell-tale smiles, Audubon would have known he was being gouged.

Peering ahead with a spyglass, Audubon saw countless dark valleys half hidden by the pines and cycads that gave the mountains their name.

Birdsongs filled the air, especially just after sunrise when Audubon and Harris started out each day.