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Today we present a very motivated and determined Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) out grabbing some lunch. It looks like Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) is on the menu, and while it may be equally as motivated, it doesn’t stand a chance. #MondayMotivation

For #Feathursday we mourn the loss of the Passenger Pigeon, once the most abundant bird in North America but now extinct for over 100 years. These Pigeons are found in Rex Brasher's 'Birds and Trees of North America.' Read his musings on the species here: https://t.co/oxBAQVobJg

Woody Leslie’s book 'Parsely' is “a verbo-visual artist’s book that uses words alone to both narrate and illustrate a story, ostensibly about the neighbor’s parsley being eaten by some caterpillars under my watchful eye.” Learn more: https://t.co/aAH1jfmzMb #TypographyTuesday

Today's #Spotlight is on Dr. Syntax! Learn more about "The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London, or, The Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis," an 1820 imitator of the super popular series here: https://t.co/zCs4RX2Ohm

For this #Feathursday we present a portrait of two extremely handsome Brown Peilcans (Pelecanus occidentalis) by American wildlife artist James Lockhart from Lockhart’s folio volume 'Portraits of Nature.' Learn more here: https://t.co/zS8jkRM9A2

We’re taking one last trip to the Congo to meet the alert and motivated African Grass Owl (Tyto capensis), from a chromolithograph by L. Cuvelier printed by the Belgian master printer Jean Malvaux in the 1905 portfolio 'Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'État indépendant du Congo'

Happy belated #FathersDay! Illustrations by Ben Shecter for 'A Father Like That' by Charlotte Zolotow published by Harper & Row in 1971 from our Historical Curriculum Collection.

#Caturday this week was a preamble to Father's Day with this fatherly lion and his cub from Pictures for Our Darlings published in Boston by D. Lothrop & Co. in 1876. This book is from our Historical Curriculum Collection. Learn more here: https://t.co/kWOrqzH4fN

This week's Staff Pick comes from our Art-History-Fieldworker-turned-Graduate-Intern Youngchul. She's chosen '14 Stations' by Jeffrey Morin and sailorBOYpress. Read all about it here: https://t.co/l33audIsqy

These naughty American Magpies are raiding the nest of this horrified Black Duck! Typical Magpie behavior. This image is a reproduction of a painting by American wildlife artist James Lockhart from 'Portraits of Nature.' Learn more: https://t.co/TxZSnU4s1I #Feathursday