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Please say hello to Thomas Watling's Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) [between 1792 & 1797]. #RainbowMW

The current free Expeditions and Endeavours exhibition in our Images of Nature Gallery @NHM_London, another reason to come back, sit, and connect with what you see. Here is a great example! Citron-crested cockatoo c1826-1831 (John Reeves collection) #Drawabirdday #Mindfulness

#OTD 1758 Franz #Bauer was born in Valtice, Czech Republic. Brown beard sugarbush is a flowering plant found in South Africa, with great diversity of species in the Cape and introduced to Europe from there in 18th century. Watercolour by Franz (late 18th/early 19th century)

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques [1864] by Florent Prévost (1794-1870) from our collections, now freely available via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/Qp9cPweAIj #WorldBookDay #WBD19 #WorldBookDay2019

Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus (Ferdinand #Bauer,1803). A semi-aquatic mammal found in eastern Australia. It is 1 of 5 species of monotremes, the only egg-laying mammals. The first Europeans to encounter them were bemused by its beaver-like body and duck's bill #MammalMonday

Strelitzia alba, white bird of paradise, watercolour, pencil and ink wash by Franz #Bauer c.1800. He made numerous drawings of this striking family of plants. This one was previously known as Strelitzia augusta in honour of Augusta, Princess of Wales originator of @kewgardens

Egretta tricolor, tricolored heron. Plate 217 from John James Audubon's (1785-1851) Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (and Son), London #JanuaryBlues

Sitta europaea, Eurasian nuthatch. Watercolour on paper 1830s by James Hope Stewart (1789-1883) #nationalbirdday

Casuarius bennetti, dwarf cassowary. Watercolour by John Keulemans (1842–1912) commissioned by Lord Rothschild c.1900 and drawn from a live specimen at his menagerie @NHM_Tring. Rothschild was fascinated with the giant flightless bird, collecting and studying them #JanuaryBlues

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird-of-paradise. Plate 29 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's (1847-1909) Monograph of the Paradiseidae (1891-98). Both volumes free to view/download via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/ZFEzIlvqnf #JanuaryBlues