Avocet Collection

Seashore scene with avocets and rare birds
Seashore scene viewed from a hide, with avocets and rare birds. Date: circa 1950s

Pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, and ruff, Philomachus pugnax. Handcoloured engraving by widow Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d

American avocet, Recurvirostra americana. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

Bearded bellbird, Procnias averano, and American avocet, Recurvirostra americana. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Avocet (Morris)
(Recurvirostra avocetta) Date: 1851

Red-necked Avocet and Pied Stilt Poaka
Red-necked Avocet, Recurvirostra novaehollandiae. Pied Stilt Poaka, Himantopus leucocephalus. Black Stilt Kaki, Himantopus novazelandiae

Black-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus, and pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

Enemy aeroplanes attack British steamer by G. H. Davis
Enemy aeroplanes attacking a British steamer. Bombs and bullets from above -- the Avocet attacked by three German planes during the First World War

Avro 584 Avocet during construction

Recurvirostra avosetta, pied avocet
Plate 52 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Recurvirostra novaehollandiae, red-necked avocet
Watercolour 334 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled American Avoset

Recurvirostra avocetta, pied avocet
Hand coloured lithograph by Archibald Thorburn. Held in the Zoology Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Recurvirostra americana, American avocet
Plate 318 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Studies of avocets
A series of studies of avocets, ducking under the water surface, taking off, looking for fish

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