Article ID: CBB073172984

Audubon's Famous Banding Experiment: Fact or Fiction? (2018)

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John James Audubon has been hailed as the progenitor of bird banding in America, but the high rate of natal philopatry in banded Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) that he reported is an outlier when compared to modern data. More troubling, a reconstruction of the timeline of events with multiple independent primary sources, shows that Audubon was not in Pennsylvania when he claimed to have re-sighted two banded phoebes there in 1805. These facts cast doubt on the veracity of his story.

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Authors & Contributors
Martin A. Sidor
Peter B. Logan
King, Richard J.
Forkner, Ben
Subhankar Banerjee
Woodman, Neal
Journals
Archives of Natural History
William and Mary Quarterly
Social Studies of Science
Publishers
Louisiana State University Press
University of South Carolina Press
University of New Hampshire
University of Georgia Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Arizona Press
Concepts
Ornithology
Birds
Scientific illustration
Biographies
Natural history
Science and art
People
Audubon, John James
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Ward, Edwin Henry
MacGillivray, William
Godman, John Davidson
Coues, Elliott
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Edinburgh
Americas
North America
Philadelphia, PA
London (England)
Institutions
Federal Aviation Administration
National Audubon Society
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