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What Will My Next Five Queens Birds Be?

10,000 Birds

But before we get into new predictions, let’s take a look at what I predicted would be my next ten birds way back in 2015 when Barack Obama was still president, the Kansas City Royals were working their way to a World Series victory, and I was still on the young side of forty. And for it to come one day after the owl was nuts!

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

10,000 Birds

A two-page portrait of Cuban Trogon is next, its blue, green, red, and white plumage shining, then a two-page depiction of three Ruffs in male summer, male winter, and female plumage, and finally the Galapagos Short-eared Owl on the alert, facing the title page. and died 15 August 1841. This is NOT an image from the book.

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