James Audubon: naturalist, artist and... hunter?!

James Audubon is one of the most famous american naturalists, who painted and catolouged the birds of north america. Many of whom are now extinct. While this is a perfectly respectable way to go down in history, very few people know that James auduborn was actually a very avid hunter, and he actually killed every bird that he every painted. shocking, but very true. One of audbournes biographers revealed that the rarer the bird, the more eagerly Auduborn would attempt to hunt it down, regardless of the worry of extinction.
From actual diary entries of James Auduborn himself, he admitted that in order to paint the birds in natural environments, he would actually use wires to prose the corpes of the dead birds before painting them onto canvas. He even once bought a caged eagle, killed it, then painted it. over one thousand birds have been painted by james auduborn, but the body count is even higher than this considering he didnt consider every bird he killed worthy of being painted.
I think that this is proof that this so called naturalist, was actually a very sick man and it surprises me that so few animal rights activists, or art lovers for that matter, have ever heard of the disgusting methods James Aududon went through to create his mediocre art work. at the top of the page, are some painting of James Audubons birds, all of which are now extinct.