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 250^th 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 XLVI

Barred Owl
Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell & Son

Their power of sight during the day seems to be rather of an equivocal character, as I once saw one alight on the back of a cow, which it left so suddenly afterwards, when the cow moved, as to prove to me that it had mistaken the object on which it had perched for something else. At other times, I have observed that the approach of the grey squirrel intimidated them if one of these animals accidentally jumped on a branch close to them, although the Owl destroys a number of them during the twilight.

– John James Audubon

Plate XLVII

Ruby-throated Humming Bird
Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell & Son

Where is the person who, on seeing this lovely little creature moving on humming winglets through the air, suspended as if by magic in it, flitting from one flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are light and airy, pursuing its course over our extensive continent, and yielding new delights wherever it is seen;–where is the person, I ask of you, kind reader, who, on observing this glittering fragment of the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and instantly turn his mind with reverence toward the Almighty Creator, the wonders of whose hand we at every step discover, and of whose sublime conceptions we everywhere observe the manifestations in his admirable system of creation?–There breathes not such a person; so kindly have we all been blessed with that intuitive and noble feeling–admiration!

– John James Audubon

Plate XLVIII

Azure Warbler
Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell

Plate XLVIV

Blue-green Warbler
Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell

Plate L

Black & Yellow Warbler
Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell

The Black-and-Yellow Warbler has a clear and sweetly modulated song, surpassing that of many other birds of its tribe. It sings in the interior of the low woods, to which it seems at all times to give a decided preference. Its motions are extremely graceful; its tail is constantly spread as it flits along the branches, or even while it is on the ground, to which it frequently betakes itself, and its wings are usually held in a drooping position, so as to display all the beauty of its plumage.
 

– John James Audubon