Birds by John James Audubon

A selection of paintings from the great American painter, John James Audubon:

Painted Bunting


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Carolina Parakeet, from "Birds of America," 1829


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Pileated Woodpecker


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Scrub Jay


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Passenger Pigeon


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Rose-Breasted Grosbeak from "Birds of America"


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Male And Female Long Billed Curlew (Numenius Americanus) with the City of Charleston Behind


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Bachman's Warbler


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White Gyrfalcon


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Anna's Hummingbird


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Curlew Sandpiper


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Summer Or Wood Duck


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Exotic Parrots, c.1850


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California Partridge


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Splendor in Red - Photos and Art Prints of the Northern Cardinal

Some photos and art prints of the delightful, very beautiful Northern Cardinal:

Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis Cardinalis, Food Exchange During the Breeding Season. Eastern USA


Cornell, John


16 in. x 12 in.

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Female Northern Cardinal in Snowy Pine Tree


Jones, Adam


16 in. x 12 in.

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A Cardinal Sits on a Snow-Covered Branch


16 in. x 12 in.

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Cardinal Grosbeak


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18 in. x 24 in.

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Autumn Cardinal


Brent, Paul


15 in. x 11.438 in.

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Cardinal


Daniel, Kevin


12 in. x 12 in.

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Cardinal


Thacker, Kate...


18 in. x 24 in.

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Male Northern Cardinal


Jones, Adam


12 in. x 16 in.

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A Female Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis Cardinalis) on a Sunflower Seed Head, Eastern North America


Maslowski, Steve


12 in. x 16 in.

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Northern Cardinal


Sibley, David


18 in. x 18 in.

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Cardinals


Jones, Shelley L


20 in. x 16 in.

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The Bird Related Art of Pablo Picasso

Some bird related images created by the inimitable Pablo Picasso:

Owl


Picasso, Pablo


19.625 in. x 23.5 in.

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Dove of Peace


Picasso, Pablo


28 in. x 22 in.

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Le Pingouin, c.1907


Picasso, Pablo


19.5 in. x 23.5 in.

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Le Flamand Rose


Picasso, Pablo


19.625 in. x 23.625 in.

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Blue Dove


Picasso, Pablo


22.11 in. x 14.75 in.

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The Ostrich


Picasso, Pablo


19.625 in. x 23.625 in.

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La Colombe, 1958


Picasso, Pablo


19.625 in. x 27.5 in.

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Les Pigeons, c.1957


Picasso, Pablo


16 in. x 20 in.

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The Doves, 1957


Picasso, Pablo


19.75 in. x 27.625 in.

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Atlas of Rare Birds - Book Review

Atlas of Rare Birds By Dominic Couzens 

"This book tells the story of 50 of the rarest birds in the world". So opens Atlas of Rare Birds By Dominic Couzens. The book is divided up into ten sections, with five chosen birds in each section. These sections (with an example bird) are:

1. Back From The Brink (Kakapo)
2. The Perils of Island Living (Ultramarine Lorikeet)
3. Threats in Many Guises (Tristan Albatross)
4. Migrants (Aquatic Warbler)
5. Unexpected Calamities (White-rumped Vulture)
6. Lost Causes? (Spoon-billed Sandpiper)
7. Controversies (Spotted Owl)
8. Discoveries (Algerian Nuthatch)
9. Rediscoveries (Noisy Scrub-bird)
10. The Pending Tray (Long-whiskered Owlet)  

I very much like this structure - it adds merit to the book by adding depth to the subject. For example, the section "Unexpected Calamities" tlaks about the precipitous decline of the once abundant (i.e. population in the millions) White-rumped Vulture. Eventually it was traced to a drug used to treat injured cattle that the birds were ingesting. This creates a "lessons learned" aspect to the book. I also like the details provided in the stories e.g. the Kakapo is probably one of the longest living birds in the world with an average life-expectancy of 90 years.

Here are some photos of the book from the four pages long Kakapo section - I find this flightless bird and its story to be most interesting!

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Entertaining Offbeat Information On The Natural World - The Books of David Quammen

"David Quammen, a highly regarded popular-science writer and novelist, brings a range of qualities to his work as an interpreter of nature: a journalist's talent for finding a good story and telling it well, a scholar's conviction that facts matter, and an amateur naturalist's passion for learning about the way things work." - Amazon.com