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January 29, 1888: English landscape painter Edward Lear dies.

Lear is better known as a writer of "nonsense verse", but his skill as an artist is impressive.

During his career, he worked for the and made drawings of birds for the ornithologist John Gould. 🎨

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2022-01-29

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

🎨🪶  American ornithologist and painter ("The Birds Of America"), 27 January 1851.

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2022-01-27

This is all about beaks and feet!.
These wood engravings and color lithographs are based on drawings and paintings by Ernest Thompson Seton found in our 1907 edition of 'Bird-Life, A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds,' by American ornithologist Frank M. Chapman

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2022-01-14

The two figures of a Woodchat featured in Yarrell’s (1845) History of British Birds. Ornithologists have been, are and will continue to be funny souls! What other examples historical are there!? I can name a few…

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2022-01-13

Another bird ordered by the gov't. They said "make the ornithologists mad", whatever that means!

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2021-12-29

A very bold Hawlucha poses for the Pokemon Ornithologist! Cyndaquil looks a bit concerned! This was a commission I did recently.

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2021-12-18

Armed with a database of almost 100,000 bird interactions, experts known as ornithologists have decoded that secret pecking order and created a continentwide power ranking of almost 200 species. https://t.co/x3EubLmbIo

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2021-11-30

A must see for the ornithologists and artists amongst you covering thousands of years of art and science! https://t.co/QOAFUMx4GM

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2021-11-12

Bizarrely Bond was actually named after an American ornithologist that Fleming met on holiday and visually he's based on American musician Hoagy Carmichael.

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2021-10-25

THEY LOOKED LIKE THIS AND THEY LIVED IN FLORIDA AND WENT EXTINCT IN THE 1930’S AND ITS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT MIGHT NOT EVEN EXIST!! ORNITHOLOGISTS MAY HAVE JUST MADE IT UP AND I THINK THATS COOL

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2021-10-24

Birthday in the park: William John Swainson, 1789-1855, ornithologist, entomologist and artist........ https://t.co/US5sEc7XXR

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2021-10-08

"Red-crowned Garrulax, Garrulax ruficeps"

White-throated/Rufous-crowned Laughingthrush, proposed endemic. Published in "The Birds of Asia" by English ornithologist John Gould (1804–1881) with notes provided by naturalist Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877) https://t.co/HUkTqDeah4

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2021-09-26

"Formosan Green Woodpecker, Gecinus tancol"

The grey-headed woodpecker. Published in "The Birds of Asia" by English ornithologist John Gould (1804–1881) with notes provided by naturalist Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877). https://t.co/ZgVXMQhd14

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2021-09-24

"Red-kneed Pomatorhinus, Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis"

The black-necklaced scimitar babbler. Published in "The Birds of Asia" by English ornithologist John Gould (1804–1881) with notes provided by naturalist Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877). https://t.co/FWUu6rV7Mx

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2021-09-23

"Formosan Jay, Garrulus taivanus"

subspecies of the Eurasian Jay. Published in "The Birds of Asia" by English ornithologist John Gould (1804–1881) with notes provided by naturalist Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877). https://t.co/D0wu19O70u

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2021-09-23

"Embroidered Barbet, Megalaema nuchalis"

Barbet. Published in "The Birds of Asia" by English ornithologist John Gould (1804–1881) with notes provided by naturalist Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877). https://t.co/ygPyuQy1Dt

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2021-09-22

Born John Gould British ornithologist & bird Published a series of monographs on birds illustrated by sublime plates produced with assistance of his wife & other artists Called father of bird study in Australia Worked with Darwin identifying finches

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2021-09-14

I'm no ornithologist but I think this is just an ordinary bird. Turn one it files off and you never see it again

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2021-09-14

The Dickcissel (Spiza americana) is mainly a bird of the American Midwest. Max has seen and heard them in his rambles around the Midwest, but never seen them here in Wisconsin. This chromolithographic plate is from a painting by the noted American ornithologist Robert Ridgway.

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2021-08-27