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PLATE 4 Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picus querulus

father, Jean Audubon, was a sea captain, and his mother, Jeanne Rabine, died shortly after his birth. He spent his childhood and schooldays in France, though he appears to have had a rather scant formal education. However, he became interested in wildlife through hunting and drawing what he saw. In 1803, when he was in his late teens, his father persuaded him to return to

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