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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

Attempt at a Skarmory/Spiritomb fusion character design. Their name is The Ornithologist and they’re the big bad of my current group of OCs.

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2020-03-08

Birds of the park, and elsewhere: Ornithologia Danmoniensis : or, an history of the habits and economy of Devonshire birds.........by A G C Tucker, 1809, from BHL/NHM.......https://t.co/IN7Z09hQ4O

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2020-02-27

New research! Schwarz et al re-described the historic "Cetiosauriscus" (aka Ornithopsis) from Switzerland. Not only is this a phenomenal description, but we also get a "new" sauropod: the team renamed this material

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2020-02-25

Esto se nos está llenando de saurópodos. Bienvenido al Jurásico Superior Europeo: Amanzia (“Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus”) greppini n. gen. from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Fm of Switzerland by Schwarz et al https://t.co/1GfcXgWx5v

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2020-02-25

🎂 to Winslow Homer, born in 1836. Homer is well known for his depictions of coastal New England. This work was inspired in part by the illustrations of the ornithologist John James Audubon.

Winslow Homer, Right and Left, 1909, oil on canvas. Collection of .

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2020-02-24

The whip-poor-will from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (1827-38)

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2020-02-22

On 21 February 1918, the last Carolina parakeet in captivity died at Cincinnati Zoo. The American Ornithologists' Union declared the birds in 1939. This engraving is by Mark Catesby, publ. 1731-43. More about Catesby & his legacy in our blog: https://t.co/COwiZ1d2Dy

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2020-02-22

The now-extinct Audubon Carolina parakeet from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (1827-38)

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2020-02-21

The red-shouldered hawk from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (1827-38)

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2020-02-20

In the preface to Vol. I of his American Ornithology, Charlie Bonaparte thanks his colleagues for helping him make his English sound more natural and less "foreign." He nevertheless could write that all waxwings are "largely and pointedly crested."

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2020-02-20

Les belles illustrations géométrico-ornitho de Aga Więckowska🤎

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2020-02-18

The ivory-billed woodpecker from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (1827-38)

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2020-02-18

Warmup sketch. Hypothetical evolution of from a lagerpetid/scleromochlus-like ornithodiran, taking an arboreal route. Hopefully one day we will be able to find some of these intermediate taxa! Late for

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2020-02-13

+ still images!!

also, this is the ornithologist again! they were a simple birder who got a little too close to a strange bird and entered a symbiotic relationship by accident. they don't seem too bothered by this.

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2020-02-13