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We were taken by Eichenberg’s anthropomorphic depiction of animals, so we decided to display some of his bird images from the 25 engravings in this book for #Feathursday! Learn more: https://t.co/u4yu5Xy6KF
It's #Feathursday! Birds play a prominent part in 'Peter and the Wolf,' in particular a songbird and a duck. In this 1940 children’s-book version of 'Peter and the Wolf' the design and illustrations by Warren Chappell and calligraphy is by Hollis Holland. https://t.co/rfI3zVNkcG
Happy #Feathursday! Male Himalayan #Monal (Lophophorus impejanus). #SciArt by Joseph Smit for Ibis (1884). View more in the @BioDivLibrary with thanks to the Research Library of the @AMNH for digitizing: https://t.co/obC3HrdsxN
Happy #Feathursday! Fiji parrotfinches (Erythrura pealii) build domed nests made of grass blades with an entrance on the side. #SciArt by H. Goodchild for Avicultural Magazine, V.18 (1911-12), via @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @SILibraries for digitizing: https://t.co/wa02VBp52q
It's #Feathursday! This week we bring you diving ducks from Rex Brasher’s 12-volume set Birds and Trees of North America, self-published between 1929 and 1932, containing hand-colored reproductions of Brasher’s paintings! https://t.co/Kzb05LsXrR
Happy #Feathursday! Princess #parrots (Polytelis alexandrae) are Australian natives, who can lived up to 30 years. #SciArt from John Gould's #Birds of #Australia, Supplement (1869). View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @SILibraries for digitizing: https://t.co/mFfBPQ4Yyi
It's #Feathursday! Today we revisit the 6th edition of Thomas Bewick‘s classic field guide 'A History of British Birds,' with his wood engravings of the smaller falcons, a part of what Bewick refers to as “The Falcon Tribe of rapacious birds.” View more: https://t.co/cw58K2IxF8
Happy #Feathursday! Beautiful #nuthatches (Sitta formosa) are native to southeast Asia, particularly in the eastern Himalayas. #SciArt by John Gould and Henry C. Richter for Gould's #Birds of Asia, Vol. 2 (1850-83), in @BioDivLibrary via @SILibraries: https://t.co/lyHVXRCfcm
Happy #Feathursday! Mallee ringneck #parrot (Barnardius zonarius barnardi), one of the subspecies of colorful Australian ringneck #parrots. #SciArt from John Gould's #Birds of #Australia, Vol. 5 (1848). View in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @SILibraries: https://t.co/4y0si7gQJT
It's also #Feathursday! We've been seeing lots of hummingbirds lately so today we're sharing some of these tiny, aggressive, mainly nectar-eating birds with a few pages from 'Birds in Their Homes' by Addison Webb & illustrations by Sabra Mallett Kimball. https://t.co/pskblqwjc7
Happy #Feathursday! Moluccan King-parrots (Alisterus amboinensis) are natives of specific Indonesian rainforests. #SciArt from The Birds of Celebes and the Neighbouring Islands (1898) by A.B. Meyer and L.W. Wiglesworth, via @BioDivLibrary & @Naturalis_Sci: https://t.co/cfz1w4d7Of
Happy #Feathursday! Enjoy these #feathers from 14 different #birds. #SciArt by J. Terrier from Faune de la Sénégambie, Oiseaux (1884) by Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune. View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to the @FieldMuseum for digitizing: https://t.co/MzPJzGiGLb
Happy #Feathursday! Channel-billed #Cuckoos (Scythrops novaehollandiae) are brood parasites, which means they lay their eggs in others' nests. #SciArt by J. Gould & H.C. Richter for Gould's Birds of Australia, V.4 (1848) via @BioDivLibrary & @SILibraries: https://t.co/RgHLiPoUsj
Happy #Feathursday! Today we've got a few original watercolor drawings of birds for you by Milwaukee illustrator Susan Estelle Kwas from two one-of-a-kind books we recently acquired. Read about the books here: https://t.co/lyyeao6lur
Happy #Feathursday! Large Frogmouths (Batrachostomus auritus). #SciArt by #ElizabethGould and John Gould for Gould's Icones Avium (1837-38). View more in @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/kDrDKFVptF -- #WomeninHistSciArt #WomeninNatHist #WomeninScience #WomeninArt
It's #Feathursday! Please enjoy these chromolithographs of American Sparrows from the 1907 edition of 'Bird-Life, A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds' by Frank M. Chapman, with illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton. More here: https://t.co/QdXwGSdWMF
Happy #Feathursday! Brazilian #tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius) by William Swainson for his #Birds of #Brazil and #Mexico (1841). View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to the @mayrlibrary of the @MCZHarvard for digitizing: https://t.co/2XWLZxJgHi
Happy #Feathursday! It's time for a #NameThatBird challenge! Try to identify as many birds as you can in these images from 'The Public Park' (1971) by Herbert L. Edlin and come back at 4pm Central to see if you were right! Learn more here: https://t.co/gxGrEVNwMn
Gilded #Hummingbirds (Hylocharis chrysura) for #Feathursday! #SciArt by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter for Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds (1861). View in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to @SILibraries for digitizing: https://t.co/s57SCHoCu0
Kingfisher (family Alcedinidae) for #Feathursday! #SciArt "drawn from nature" by George Edwards in 1761. Published in his "Gleanings of Natural History" (1758-1764), contributed in #BHLib from @NLB: https://t.co/aCJY07YiM2 #birds #birbs