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Mary & Elizabeth Kirby's book 'The Sea and its wonders',1871, is global in scope & is not simply a guide to the British seashore, it includes oceanography, chemistry & biology as well as information about seals! #InternationalDayoftheSeal #HerNaturalHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
Our 1st tweet about women scientists of the past for #BritishScienceWeek - Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe we think was the 1st woman to 1st author a paper in @JZoology read her paper here https://t.co/IUMLXEVmsP & our blog https://t.co/guoZ4Wf8Zc #HerNaturalHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
Sarah, ZSL's Archivist, did an online chat session with some KS2 students about Joan Procter, ZSL's former Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians. Find out more about Joan Procter in Sarah's blog https://t.co/FtZy4lwnv6 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInScience #sciart
ZSL have sent 4 #endangered northern bald ibis to Spain ready to be released
into the wild as part of an international #conservation project. This early print of the ibis is in E Albin's Nat Hist of Birds, V. 3, 1738. More details about the project at https://t.co/DKRsHBiVbX
For #WorldWetlandsDay we are highlighting some wetland #birds Enjoy these paintings of wildfowl by Henry Jones (1838-1921) in our #specialcollections - barnacle goose, mandarin duck and Bewick's swan #sciart Plus our new blog is about barnacles and geese https://t.co/kVPkljszmy
For day 10 of our #TwelveDaysofGouldsmas here are a pair of grasshopper warblers from Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain' vol. 2. We chose these because the word 'grasshopper' makes us think of leaping! Less tenuous connections to follow, we promise...
Day 4 of our #TwelveDaysofGouldsmas and we're sharing blackbirds. Why? Well, it's thought the song originally referred to 'colley' birds, which is an archaic term for blackbirds. This pair feature in John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain' vol. 2 #TwelveDaysOfChristmas
For day 2 of our #TwelveDaysofGouldsmas is a pair of turtle doves, which can be found in John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', vol. 4. #Early #TwelveDaysOfChristmas
#HappyBirthday to John Gould who was born #OnThisDay in 1804. An eminent ornithologist, who worked here at ZSL as Curator of Birds. Gould described the birds Darwin brought back from his expedition aboard HMS Beagle, so we decided to share the famous 'Darwin's finches'!
You may have read the sad news that 8 bird species have been confirmed as becoming #extinct this decade, so we wanted to share this stunning image by Joseph Smit of one of these species. Below you can see the Spix macaw, which also featured in ZSL's Proceedings.