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With the Mesozoic narrowly in the lead, here are a couple Late Cretaceous troodontids that I drew in colored pencil around Fall 2017: Gobivenator & Saurornithoides.

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2019-06-14

190525🌙 Ornithologist96

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2019-06-10

"#Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a new iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia", new paper by Phil R. Bell et al. in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology () https://t.co/I0PoYzGpHe

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2019-06-04

"To fulfil a wish I had long entertained, of dedicating to our most gracious Queen one of the loveliest of the ornithological productions of her antipodal dominions..." Victoria's riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae), in Gould's Birds of Australia (1869)

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2019-05-25

Amber majored in Ornithology just so she could live with a bunch of species of birds.

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2019-05-08

Yet another pterosaur named by famous paleontologist Harry Seeley, Ornithostoma hails from the Early Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand Formation. https://t.co/4OxXZHOJUj

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2019-05-04

One of eight Lears in our new catalogue, this watercolour of a King Vulture was drawn from life at the Surrey Zoological Gardens in April 1832. The Gardens were set up by Edward Cross at Walworth Manor in Kennington, London in 1829

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2019-05-01

April 26, 1785: Artist and ornithologist John James Audubon is born.

“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.” As if anyone could ever describe an Audubon illustration as anything short of magnificent.

🎨 John James Audubon, "Blue Jays"

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2019-04-27

In 1867 saw calls from the Royal Ornithological Club to introduce strict limits on the number of eggs from elephant-eating الرُخّ birds allowed to be collected at Easter, amid fears that the popularity of XXXXXXL omelettes & roast Roc chicks would cause the population to plummet.

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2019-04-18

Great Tits are the largest of their family in the UK. Like Blue Tits they can nest in some unusual locations and they readily use nest boxes. Research on Tits at Whytham Woods has been going for >70 years since 1947! https://t.co/9R9URm8jD0

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2019-04-12

This past Monday we posted some owl illustrations by the noted British naturalist artist John Nash from the 1972 Limited Editions Club production of 'The Natural History of Selborne,' by the 18th-century English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White.

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2019-04-05

For your delight, we present "Curiosities of Ornithology" (1871), featuring such incredible as the kākāpō, satyr tragopan, blue-throated barbet, violet turaco & Knysna turaco. Explore more by T.W. Wood thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/7CBSZLz3zl

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2019-04-04

On this day in in 1570: Bohemian ornithologist Václav Wač found the remains of a wing of a new bird, named after him as Wač's Wing when live specimens were found. English publishers, unfamiliar with the Slavic letter č, soon corrupted it to 'Waxwing'.

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2019-04-01

It's a bit damp and breezy and muddy and dark out there this morning. Best to find somewhere not occupied by a cat and curl up with a good book, I reckon. In the meantime, here's today's scribble - two more ornithological helpings; the kestrel and the tree creeper.

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2019-03-17