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Yesterday was and we'd like to share with you these beautiful birds of the Congo from 'Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'État indépendant du Congo' published in Brussels by Musée du Congo in 1905. More here: https://t.co/WbJuDxtubQ

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2018-06-08

We were so captivated by our feathered friends, we almost missed the little ship on the water, just behind that middle birdie's hind toes. Plate from an epic series of 22 volumes on New York state wildlife published in the 19th century https://t.co/TNDv8BVrY5

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2018-06-08

This week for we've got Swifts from Rex Brasher's 12-volume set 'Birds and Trees of North America.' Learn all about this aerobatic tendencies here: https://t.co/lCrbAzApX0

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2018-06-01

The Capitonidae inhabit humid forests in Central and South America & are closely related to toucans. Explore the family for with "A Monograph of the Capitonidæ" (1871), in via : https://t.co/KMOy9PWBnj

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2018-05-31

These hummingbirds (while not common in Wisconsin) remind us of the little ones now flitting around our feeders! From 'Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty,' by the late-19th-century director of the Milwaukee Public Museum Henry Nehrling. More: https://t.co/ZR0g2znx2D

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2018-05-18

It's a day late but no birds short! These lovely Mimidae come from our favorite, Rex Brasher's 'Birds and Trees of North America.' Learn more here: https://t.co/DOvIaSyrbA

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2018-05-04

This we submit for your consideration a strolling Dodo, a chortling Swift, and some dancing dainties from the 1864 'Album des Bêtes à l'usage des gens d'esprit texte,' with caricatures by Jean-Jacques Grandville. Learn more here: https://t.co/iNKSEVnFAe

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2018-04-27

Happy Abdim's Storks (Ciconia abdimii) are natives of Africa. by Müller for Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Symbolae Physicae, Zoologica I, Avium, Part 1 (1828). Contributed by : https://t.co/7usbm1jimr

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2018-04-19

style of the Tufted Tit Tyrant (Anairetes parulus). by John Gerrard Keulemans for Richard Crawshay, Birds of Tierra del Fuego (1907). Contributed for digitization in by : https://t.co/XXY49AR8m0 --

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2018-04-06

Do you need an introduction to birds? Do you feel 'meh' about Ted Hughes but 'woohoo!' about Leonard Baskin? THEN HAVE WE GOT A BOOK FOR YOU! It's 'A Primer of Birds,' designed and printed by Baskin for his Gehenna Press. Learn more here: https://t.co/ooeLViVSzt

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2018-04-06

Blue-grey Tanager (Thraupis episcopus) for by William Swainson for his Birds of Brazil and Mexico (1841). Contributed for digitization in by of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at : https://t.co/HRMzDFDPOM --

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2018-04-05

We've got four different warblers from Rex Brasher's 'Birds and Trees of North America' to help sing us into spring! Can you identify these warblers?

Find out who they are here: https://t.co/3niZJ1Ieej

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2018-03-23

"Birds of Canada" (1934), by Percy Algernon Taverner with by Allan Brooks, is one of the best accounts of the occurring in For learn more about this work in our latest blog post from : https://t.co/3yoSgmISMc

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2018-03-22

The European roller (Coracias garrulus) for by Archibald Thorburn for Lilford's "Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands" v. 2 (1885-1897). In via : https://t.co/GZymSNrxTn

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2018-03-22

It was Yesterday. These Goldfinches and Red-winged Blackbirds are common sights here in Milwaukee, and these examples from 'Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States' (1882) look very familiar! Learn more about the book here: https://t.co/jGJjdqzKUa

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2018-03-16

It's a very British this week, with these little birds from 'Oak & Company' by Richard Mabey, illustrated by Clare Roberts.

Learn more here: https://t.co/MP7uQ3UEll

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2018-03-09

These little Longspurs and Snow Buntings (Family Calcariidae) sure do seem to enjoy the frosty weather!

These lil pips are from a painting by Walter A. Weber reproduced in 'Bird Portraits in Color' by Dr. Thomas Sadler Roberts. Learn more: https://t.co/u51375tdrx

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2018-02-16

Happy Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis). by John Gerrard Keulemans for his Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin, Vol. 2 (1873). Contributed for digitization by the Research Library of the : https://t.co/cyIJOJameb --

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2018-02-08

Tern around! Every now and then we post some Brasher for and people flock arouuund!

It's a 'Total Eclipse of the Tern' this week, as we share these Sooty, Common, and Arctic Terns from Brashers 'Birds and Trees of North America.' Learn more: https://t.co/0yPTlH5pQl

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2018-02-02

Happy Celebrate with beautiful by Pauquet in Prévost & Lemaire's "Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques" (1864). This work features 80 plates showing 200 subjects. Digitized in by : https://t.co/tIda1yFjov

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2018-02-01