EditorialBlack-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus, and pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. P...
EditorialBlack-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus, and pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. P...
EditorialAmerican Avocet, American Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra americana), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 353 (vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in th...
EditorialKluut (Recurvirostra avosetta). Avosetta. / avocette. (title on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 295 mm ? w 207 mm.
EditorialAmerican Avocet, American Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra americana), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 353 (vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in th...
EditorialRecurvirostra americana, Print, The American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. This avocet spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from...
EditorialKluut (Recurvirostra avosetta). Avosetta. / avocette. (title on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 295 mm ? w 207 mm.
EditorialRecurvirostra avosetta (Pied avocet). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm ? w 480 mm; h 407 mm ? w 251 mm; h 354 mm ? w 251 mm.
EditorialKluut (Recurvirostra avosetta). Avosetta. / avocette. (title on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 295 mm ? w 207 mm.
EditorialAmerican avocet, Recurvirostra americana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815.
EditorialAmerican avocet, Recurvirostra americana. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824.
EditorialPied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, and ruff, Philomachus pugnax. Handcoloured engraving by widow Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), P...
EditorialPied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, and greater flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Pardinel after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837.
EditorialBlack-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus, and pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. P...
EditorialPied avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own "Natural History of British Birds," London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and e...