Nature Done Wright

    I came across the following item while I was helping to compile The Record’s Enviro Calendar this week:

   Friday  is opening day of a major new exhbition of more than 40 original watercolors of now-endangered or extinct species that John James Audubon prepared for his landmark book, "Birds of America."

   The exhibition at the New York Historical Society, Manhattan,  runs through March 16, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesdays through Sundays.

   Billed as a "multi-sensory experience," the exhibition includes recorded bird calls, video from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and rarely seen selections from the Society’s unrivaled collection of Audubon ephemera.

    Location: 170 Central Park West at 77th Street. Admission: $10; Teachers, Seniors, $7; students, $6; children under 12, free. Info: 212-873-3400.