Tag Archives: Birds

1917: Flamingos

Posted on May 31, 2019 by corvusfugit

Sydney Long: Flamingos (1917)

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1890: Pig Disturber

Posted on May 11, 2019 by corvusfugit

William Weekes: Pigs Disturbed by a Hen; I made up the date.

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1894: Swans

Posted on March 12, 2019 by corvusfugit

Józef Pankiewicz: Nocturne: Swans in the Saxon Garden in Warsaw by Night (1894)

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1795: Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading!

Posted on August 16, 2018 by corvusfugit

From Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen: ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen, volume 4 (1795): Twenty-four different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of a … Continue reading →

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1890: Seagulls

Posted on June 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

Max Jensen: Seagulls over the Waves; I made up the date.

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2018: Eagle

Posted on May 6, 2018 by corvusfugit

Jim Charlie (Squamish): Eagle Panel (c. 2018)

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1188: Two Islands

Posted on April 21, 2018 by corvusfugit

There is a lake in the north of Munster which contains two islands, one rather large and the other rather small. The larger has a church venerated from the earliest times. The smaller has a chapel cared for most devotedly … Continue reading →