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Alice Tait ‘Homing Pigeons’

Obscure nineteenth century illustration of Fruit Doves, probably from an American publication.

Edward Donovan drew, engraved, & hand-coloured images in ‘The Natural History of British Birds’; London 1802-1808 #Woodpigeon

.. from 'Paintings of Razmnama’ a Persian translation of a Hindu epic, the Mahabharata #India
In this image a hunter is going to cook & eat a pigeon, & perhaps another

Dear Journal ..
Today I was on the old railway station at Camberwell. It's been closed to humans for ages but there is still a remnant of platform. Sadly none of the trains stopped so I winged it up to Denmark Hill station. Once there I spent time browsing on Platforms 2 & 3.

UNIMPRESSED: A Dutch fantail pigeon from the eighteenth century faces off with the NIKE SWOOSH logo (re-imagined by Jean Jullien).
[The NIKE SWOOSH logo was designed by Caroline Davidson in 1971

Dear Journal ..
Spent some time with the water birds at Peckham Rye all mixing on the ice .. we take the bread as it is bad for the ducks

’The Lilac Bird’ painted by Edward Lear in Northern Italy circa 1880 .. via The Victoria and Albert Museum @V_and_A

Fiji Orange Dove (Ptilinopus victor); hand-coloured engraving from 'Report on the scientific results of the voyage of HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76’.
[A good example of how birds have mostly been named for the male of the species.

SCIENCE: A giant fruit-eating bird from Tonga joins the Dodo in the lineup of giant island pigeons hunted to extinction.
#goodshortread
https://t.co/2RPfmnAx09…
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@physorg_biology