Birds of America Volume 1 (Plate 43)

Adopt-an-Audubon Plate sponsor benefits:

  • Credit on the bird label whenever it is exhibited
  • Recognition on the Museum’s digital donor board in the main lobby
  • Museum individual plus membership for 2 years (maximum of 2 years)
  • For adoptions of $6,000 or more, a copy of our 250th anniversary book, The Charleston Museum: America’s First Museum
  • For adoptions of $9,000 or more, an invitation to a private “behind the scenes” tour, for up to 4 people, of the Museum Archives and Collections Storeroom
For tax purposes, The Charleston Museum is recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by the Internal revenue Service, and your gift may be tax deductible. Please consult your tax advisor for further information.
Our Adopt-an-Audubon Plate Program is a means to support the Museum’s Archives collections and should in no way be construed as obtaining an ownership interest in these collections.

Plate XLIII

Cedar Bird
Drawn by Nature and Published by John J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell

The appetite of the Cedar-bird is of so extraordinary a nature as to prompt it to devour every fruit or berry that comes in its way. In this manner they gorge themselves to such excess as sometimes to be unable to fly, and suffer themselves to be taken by the hand. Indeed I have seen some which, although wounded and confined in a cage, have eaten of apples until suffocation deprived them of life in the course of a few days. When opened afterwards, they were found to be gorged to the mouth.

– John J. Audubon


 

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