在这部博物学家奥杜邦片中,本片为PBS American Masters(美国大师)系列S21E05。约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦（John James Audubon）是美国著名的画家、博物学家，他绘制的鸟类图鉴被称作“美国国宝”。奥杜邦一生留下了无数的画作，他的每一部作品不仅是科学研究的重要资料，也是不可多得的艺术杰作，他先后出版了《美洲鸟类》和《美洲的四足动物》两本画谱。其中的《美洲鸟类》曾被誉为19世纪最伟大和最具影响力的著作。奥杜邦的作品对后世野生动物绘画产生了深刻的影响，同时，在普通公众中，奥杜邦的作品也有着很大的影响力。
John James Audubon is best known for The Birds of America, a book of 435 images, portraits of every bird then known in the United States - painted and reproduced in the size of life. Its creation cost Audubon eighteen years of monumental effort in finding the birds, making the book, and selling it to subscribers. Audubon also wrote thousands of pages about birds (Ornithological Biography); he'd completed half of a collection of paintings of mammals (The Viviparous Quadrapeds of North America) when his eyesight failed in 1846. His story is a dramatic and surprising one. Audubon was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive, and even in his own time he came to exemplify America - the place of wilderness and wild things.
