10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
You know the captain’s name already: the Ross’s Gull was named after Ross who collected the type specimen in 1823 on Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).
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10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2020
Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. A few of my own observations of birds perching on Albany, New York’s weathervanes (clockwise from the upper right): A pair of Fish Crows ( Corvus ossifragus ) perched on a “fish”vane (what else?)
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade. Photo © David J.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
A Carolina Parakeet mounted in a museum in Germany Fritz Geller-Grimm. The species is recorded in the form of a published photograph or a specimen archived in an ornithological collection. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city. There has to a logical reason.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2011
And you are absolutely spot-on right in having finally worked out what this post will be about (lesson 2) … Treecreeper Identification The Treecreepers are creepy creatures outside North America. Easy, right? Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 30, 2007
The volume „Tierrechte – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung“ (literally „Animal Rights – an interdisciplinary challenge“ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany. We would be pleased if you would support us by announcing the book in your Blog (Newsletters, Website etc.). We really appreciate it!
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