Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published in the June 1895 issue of […]
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Unborn (unhatched?) finches learn about heat from their parents’ songs.
Science News reports on chicks getting prepared to hatch into a hot world by hearing the “heat” songs of their parents: As the heat punishes […]
Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868
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: […]
Ultrablack dress made from bird-feather tech.
Nature Communications has research from Cornell ornithologists and material engineers who created a new blacker-than-black dress that’s breathable and stretchable, because it’s made from natural […]
Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix
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 […]
Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011
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 […]
Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841
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 […]
Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.
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,” […]
They’ve mapped the part of a bird’s brain that gives them consciousness like ours.
Science magazine shares an anatomical survey of birds’ brains that reveals details of the brain section that appears to function like our cerebral cortex – […]