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rhamphotheca: heracliteanfire: Print of “Seven Birds in a River Landscape” Plate 16. A Great Shrike standing on a tree branch at top, preparing to eat a dead mouse, watched by a Woodchat below, partly obscured by a Red-backed Shrike; a Kingfisher flying to left towards the water; a Creeper sitting on a tree trunk at top right, a Wryneck below, and a Nuthatch at a hole in the trunk - one of four plates printed on the sheet; illustration to H G Adams and H B Adams’s ‘The Smaller British Birds’ (London: 1874, Bell); after Alexander Francis Lydon. c 1874, Wood-engraving, printed in colours (via British Museum)

rhamphotheca:

heracliteanfire: Print of “Seven Birds in a River Landscape”

Plate 16. A Great Shrike standing on a tree branch at top, preparing to eat a dead mouse, watched by a Woodchat below, partly obscured by a Red-backed Shrike; a Kingfisher flying to left towards the water; a Creeper sitting on a tree trunk at top right, a Wryneck below, and a Nuthatch at a hole in the trunk

- one of four plates printed on the sheet; illustration to H G Adams and H B Adams’s ‘The Smaller British Birds’ (London: 1874, Bell); after Alexander Francis Lydon. c 1874, Wood-engraving, printed in colours

(via British Museum)

(via scientificillustration)

Saturday March 31st // Filed under: shrike, creeper, wryneck, kingfisher, nuthatch, bird, england, art, scientific illustration, birds, nattura,
White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) also known as the White-breasted Kingfisher or Smyrna Kingfisher, is a tree kingfisher, widely distributed in Eurasia from Bulgaria, Turkey, east through South Asia to the Philippines.  (by Purance)

White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) also known as the White-breasted Kingfisher or Smyrna Kingfisher, is a tree kingfisher, widely distributed in Eurasia from Bulgaria, Turkey, east through South Asia to the Philippines.

 (by Purance)

Tuesday January 3rd // Filed under: birds, birding, birdwatching, kingfisher, animals, nature, flight, flying, wings, green, beauty, wildlife,