DUE TO THE HOLIDAY CLOSURE AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES-THE JULY FLIPPING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED! The Audubon volumes will be removed for evaluation June 29th and 30th-they will be back on display with a new bird by Wednesday, July 1st-but check our special library hours this summer.  Flipping the bird will return on Friday, August 7-please come join us then!

Duke University Libraries will be turning the pages of the Birds of America on the first Friday of every month. We welcome you to stop by and watch-what bird will be next?

Birds of America is one of the greatest undertakings in the history of both art and ornithology. Almost 200 years after its publication, it remains a primary resource for scientists and scholars. This four-volume, double-elephant-folio edition on handmade paper measures three feet tall and two feet wide and comprises 435 hand-colored prints impressed from copperplate engravings. Of the original 175 to 200 complete sets, 125 have survived. Nine species of those depicted have since gone extinct.