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Heres A pair of Eider ducks, hunkering down under a sleety Northumberland sky.

Eider have one of my favourite bird calls, which they do with heads flung back. For those who've not heard it, it's a baleful undulating coo.

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2020-03-19

"Canadian Wild Flowers" (1868) was one of the 1st serious botanical works in Canada. It was authored & illustrated by women — Catharine Parr Traill & Agnes Fitzgibbon Chamberlin. It is freely available online via ➡️ https://t.co/PmwELa51Bc

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2020-03-18

I’m giving a talk tonight (another one!) to the in - ‘The Inside out of flies’ - yep new stories about the Marvellous creatures that are flies ahead of the NEW BOOK 📚

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2020-03-11

Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was one of the most popular artists and writers of the “Golden Age of botanical art”. Producing 20 publications, she helped create interest in flower study in the general public. Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/sxUI5xB6vf

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2020-03-08

Eleazer Albin’s 'A Natural History of Birds' (1738-40) was the first British printed book of to feature hand-coloured plates. In fact many of the 300 illustrations were the work of his daughter Elizabeth.

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2020-03-08

Happy The European blusher (Amanita rubescens) is so named because its flesh turns pink when bruised or cut. by Anna Maria Hussey for "Illustrations of British Mycology", Ser. 1 (1847), in via ➡️ https://t.co/GuySl9vQOD

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2020-03-03

I'm still working on Gertrude Hamilton see https://t.co/aNNi7qrTGj. you should think about putting some of the images in this magazine in Flickr! https://t.co/pAavfXnc2n See the following as examples https://t.co/xa1kkNYrWv

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2020-02-21

📢 Interested in + ✍️🏾—Check out 'Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration', a FREE course by ✍️🏾—https://t.co/ov23H11Egx There's still time to enroll! Starts 3/4

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2020-02-20

today so am trotting this one out again because I have zero resistance to punes (or plays on words)

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2020-02-11

Red carpet looks as flowers: Hailee Steinfeld x Paeonia spp. by Sarah Anne Drake from Edwards's botanical register (vol. 17); via and Peter H. Raven Library.

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2020-02-10

Work in progress on the scales for the Still some patchy areas that need filling in. It's coming together slowly.

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2020-02-08

Some lovely colourful sketches of animals and skeletons at from our founder 💙💛 We just love the blue and yellow combo 😍
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2020-02-05

3/10 An illustration of a tawny owl, by (1823–1909), from plate 12 of Birds from Moidart and elsewhere (1895). Courtesy of

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2020-02-03

Artist Margaret Meen's botanicals graced the walls of royal palaces & scientific academies. While largely unknown today, her legacy is an important part of British botanical history. explores her life & work: https://t.co/vgueu0msWT

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2020-01-31

Edna L. Beutenmüller created for several books on insects, including over 700 for "Field Book of Insects" (1918), based largely on specimens from where her husband was curator of entomology. Via ➡️ https://t.co/Opmy4qSbNZ

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2020-01-31