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Today is #WorldWetlandsDay2022 raising awareness about the role of wetlands for people and planet.
We taking the opportunity to highlight wetland birds with these #lithographs from John Gould's 'Birds of Europe', 1873. Great crested grebe, moorhens and kingfisher.

Are you taking part in the #BigGardenBirdWatch over the #weekend? These are some of the birds you may be lucky enough to spot. #SciArt are all #lithographs published in John Gould's 'Birds of Europe', 1837, & 'Birds of Great Britain', 1873.

Born #OTD 1776 – Charles Hamilton Smith. He assembled a huge collection of watercolour drawings to illustrate his books & talks. ZSL's former Secretary, Professor McNeill Alexander presented ZSL with the Coulton portfolio of 55 watercolours, all except one are probably by Smith.

Today we say goodbye to 'Obaysch' or at least some items linked to him, they are going away to be exhibited @BarberInstitute as part of their new exhibition 'Miss Clara and the celebrity beast in art'.
Do go & visit 'Obaysch' there 🦛https://t.co/hGpjL862ox 🦏

Happy #WorldLemurDay!
A lovely lithograph of a lemur by Lear (Edward Lear) from 'Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall', 1846-50.
We do like alliteration & tongue twisters, they do seem appropriate for someone remembered for his 'nonsense'.
#SpecialCollections

For today's fruit themed #OnlineArtExchange- 4 of your five-a-day with associated animals, after all we are a zoological library! Pineapple, grapes, banana & pomegranate in Maria Merian's (1647-1717) "Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam".

#DidYouKnow that nonsense poet Edward Lear was also an incredibly talented artist? No? Then please take a moment to enjoy these images from his 1832 book ‘Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots’. Happy #NationalPoetryDay!

John Gould was born #OTD in 1804. Former ZSL Curator of Birds, #ZSLFellow, Member of Council...
Here are a few of our favourite lithographs from the many volumes published by Gould. More on him & his hummingbirds in our recent guest #blog by Ann Datta: https://t.co/MaNoOCr86o

Alexander von Humboldt was born #OTD in 1769. Polymath, explorer & naturalist. These birds are just a few examples of species named after him - Humboldt's penguin, aracari & hummingbird.
Penguin #drawing by J. Smit.
Aracari & hummingbird from volumes of John Gould.
#SciArt

#WorldElephantDay2021 so here is one of our favourite paintings of elephants from our collections. African elephants by the wonderful Joseph Wolf, dated 1867. The famous 'Jumbo' & 'Alice' were the models for the painting. #WorldElephantDay #SciArt #OnlineArtExchange