
Flock of Scarlet Ibis, Eudocimus ruber, over Caroni Swamp, Trinidad (from Flickr)
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Flock of Scarlet Ibis, Eudocimus ruber, over Caroni Swamp, Trinidad (from Flickr)
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Red and yellow maccaw, Macrocercus aracanga, by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
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(Now Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao)
Elsewhere other-accessible…
John Gould’s illustration of Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri (now Lophochroa leadbeateri) (1865)
A white-eye bird, Zosterops sp., on a blooming cherry, Guiyang, China (viâ The In-terms-inator)
Chough, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, on Cornish coast
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Feats for the Eyes – Drawn from Paradise: The discovery, art and natural history of the birds of paradise, David Attenborough and Errol Fuller (Collins 2012)
• Heart of the Mather – Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: the maths that governs our world, Richard Elwes (Quercus 2013)
• Bergblumen – Enchanting Alpine Flowers, Alfred Pohler, trans. Jacqueline Schweighofer
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Wolfgang Tillmans, Toucan (2010)