The Nature Conservancy Collection features Audubon’s spectacular depictions of four exceptionally beautiful birds whose habitats are preserved today by the Conservancy’s work. You can support this important work by purchasing one of these extraordinary artworks.

The Great Blue Heron thrives in South Carolina’s Washo Reserve, one thousand acres owned and co-managed by the Conservancy. Thousands of shorebirds and passerines stop in migration, and up to 50,000 waterfowl spend the winter on the reserve. The Conservancy chose this site because of its national and global significance as a wading bird rookery. In 1831, Audubon painted this large, graceful bird in the act of feeding near Charleston.

The Brown Pelican is at risk along California’s scenic central coast where development is converting oak woodlands, savannas and wildflower fields to other uses. The Conservancy established the Monterey County Project in 2001 to conserve high-priority sites and critical ecological linkages identified by the Conservancy's scientific planning process. Audubon painted this adult male in breeding plumage atop a mangrove limb during 1832 in the Florida Keys.

Audubon painted the Hooping (Sandhill) Crane in a landscape of grasses and dunes, a habitat the Conservancy works to protect in the Big Bend Reach of the Platte River. This is the most important migratory bird area along the U. S. portion of the Central Flyway of North America, providing habitat for millions of migratory birds including some 500,000 Sandhill Cranes.

The Long-billed Curlew winters in the South; Audubon famously painted this glowing pair during sunset on the edge of Charleston’s harbor in 1834. In the 1900’s, Long-billed Curlew populations were decimated by hunting; the current threat is loss of prairie and meadow breeding habitat. Partnering with the Colorado State Land Board, The Nature Conservancy of Colorado works with a conservation-minded rancher, to sublease the Bohart Ranch and maintain its unique prairie ecosystem and its agricultural activities.

The Nature Conservancy's mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.