Welcome!

SILK TREE GARDENS - Connecticut Tree Nursery

Business News     Home     Landscaping Services     Tree Nursery Stock     Gardenscape     Contact Us     About Us     Site Map     LAWN AND GARDEN TIP      
PequonnockRiver
PequonnockRiverHabitat
Tree Environs

 

Posted by:  Elaine M. George November 2010

 

History of American Ornithology:   The Science, the Illustrators, and the Painters

Listing in Chronological Sequence of the most influential American illustrators

 

John James Audubon 18th  Century -  19th Century scientist, illustrator, and painter

    Born in Haiti, resident of France and then United States

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/birdsam/birdsam-main1.html

 


Rex Brasher 19th -   20th Century bird painter

      Born in Brooklyn, NY and lived in Connecticut

http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/findaids/Brasher/MSS19970030.html

 


Louis Aggassiz Fuertes, late 19th Century – early 20th Century bird scientist, illustrator, and painter

       Ithaca, NY

 

http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/Fuertes2000/fuertes.asp

 

Founded the Cornell University Ornithology Center and Library

 


Jean-Luc Cartron   20th Century – 21st Century, scientist and researcher

        Born in France and works in the Albuquerque, NM, US           

        University of New Mexico, Department of Biology

         Director of the Drylands Institute

(http://drylandsinstitute.org/pNMoffice.shtm)

         Recently published a monumental book: 

         Raptors of New Mexico with over 700 drawings

                 and photos

        

 

  

BIRD SPECIES

 

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL LINK TO BIRD HABITATS IN THE EASTERN US (SEE TABLES 1 AND 2 APPLICABLE FOR CONNECTICUT)


 

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/forest/table1.htm

 

RELEVANT TO THE PEQUONNOCK RIVER RIPARIAN HABITAT

 






Slideshow presentations

Elaine M. George:

 

 

 

History of Native Trees Along the Pequonnock River

 

 

 

 






Historical Summary of Algae in the Bridgeport, CT Pequonnock River:  Years 1889-1899

 

 

Contact directly for requests for lectures:  egeorge@caa.columbia.edu