John James Audubon spent decades tramping through American forests and riverbanks with a gun and a sketchbook, shooting birds so he could pose and paint them before the color faded, work that became his massive engraved collection The Birds of America. This program, made to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth, builds his portrait almost entirely from his own words, reading passages from his journals over his original drawings and engravings. It sets his bird studies alongside paintings by other artists of his period, giving a sense of what naturalist art looked like before and around him. Live nature photography is cut in throughout, matching present-day birds and landscapes to the ones Audubon drew, and the camera visits the actual sites tied to his travels and working life. There is no host or narrator driving an argument here, just journal, image, and place assembled to trace how a self-taught frontier artist became the country's defining bird painter.