Fifty-two breeds of chickens!
This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: FacSimiles… Read the rest “Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868”
Nature Communications has research from Cornell ornithologists and material engineers who created a new blacker-than-black dress that’s breathable and stretchable, because… Read the rest “Ultrablack dress made from bird-feather tech.”
Here’s a photo from the Encyclopedia of Life collection on Flickr, showing a family of the old bone-breakers, the fish-hawks, ospreys. They are a noble predator, moreso than some… Read the rest “Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix”
The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth king of Athens and grandfather of Theseus, and ἁλιάετος haliáetos… Read the rest “Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011”
These are painted buntings, “1.2.3. males in different states of plumage and 4. female” in the branches of a chickasaw wild plum, as displayed in The birds of America : from … Read the rest “Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841”
The American Ornithologists’ Union published a journal called The Auk in 1914, with articles in it like “A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider,” and “The Fallacy… Read the rest “Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.”
Science magazine shares an anatomical survey of birds’ brains that reveals details of the brain section that appears to function like our cerebral cortex – giving birds a … Read the rest “They’ve mapped the part of a bird’s brain that gives them consciousness like ours.”
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