Birds Collection (page 9)

Nature Scene

Robins
From a series of postcards. 1937

Portrait group of two ladies and bird
A portrait photograph of two ladies with a dove on a stand, possibly stuffed. Date: 1850s

Swans on the River Avon
A group of swans on the River Avon, Warwickshire, England, with the Church of the Holy Trinity. Stratford-on-Avon, in the background. Date: 1950s

Proposed new Union workhouse, Gateshead
Birds eye view, with inset plan, of the proposed new union workhouse at Gateshead, County Durham. It was designed by Messrs Newcombe and Knowles of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and JH Morton of South Shields

Hens by a hen house
A sketch of hens by a hen house

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Aerial view. Photo (18/40) from a fold-out set

A pair of lovebirds
Austro-Hungarian Empire souvenir tourist postcard of a pair of lovebirds

Westminster Cathedral viewed from the air
Westminster Cathedral (viewed from the air)

Dogs Chase Pheasant
Two spaniels chase a frightened pheasant through the undergrowth

Fishing with Cormorants
Fishing using cormorants in China

Fighting Cocks & Turkey
Two fighting cocks are watched by a turkey in the farmyard (illustration to the fable The Fighting Cocks and the Turkey )

Children Feed Ducks 1889
Three children on a riverbank watch ducks and their ducklings

Partridge shoot 1830
PARTRIDGE - Two men and their dogs go after partridge in the fields near Windsor

Long-Tailed Tit (Morris)
LONG-TAILED TIT (Acredula caudata)

Marsh Harrier (Morris)
MARSH HARRIER (Circus aeruginosus)

Fire-Crested Wren
FIRE-CRESTED WREN (Regulus ignicapillus) sometimes called the FIRECREST An irregular visitor to Britain

Telegraph Parrot
No one told this poor parrot on a telegraph pole that it would need to buy a telephone before it could chat to its mates

Godwins Project
FRANCIS GODWIN An ingenious method of flying by harnessing trained birds, who would tow the intrepid aviator even so far as the Moon

Birds / Owls / Alphabet
O for the owl, that flies out in the night

Funghi / Mushrooms 1869
Seven varieties of mushroom: beef-steak, latticed, boletus, hedgehog, fly agaric, clavaria, birds-nest, and sporangium (magnified)

Girl with Nestlings 19C
A little girl has found a nest of chicks in a meadow: the mother bird hovers anxiously above her

Stalking Horse
A wildfowler, knowing that birds are less frightened of horses than of humans, conceals himself behind a wooden horse

Stalking Horse Used
Shooting wildfowl with the aid of a stalking horse

Hunting Parrots
Australians hunt parrots and cockatoos using spears and boomerangs

Raven on a Rock
A raven (corvus corax) perching on a rock

Yellow Bunting (Morris)
YELLOW BUNTING (also known as YELLOWHAMMER) (Emberiza citrinella)

Mute Swan (Morris)
MUTE SWAN (Cygnus olor)

Polish Swan (Morris)
POLISH SWAN (Cygnus immutabilis)

Rook (Morris)
(Corvus frugilegus)

Rook (Somerset)
(Corvus frugilegus)

Nightingale Singing
(Daulius luscinia) Nightingale in song

LYREBIRD
(Menura superba, or Menura novae-hollandae) When it comes to showing off, the Australians do it best

Humming Birds - 4
(Trochilidae) Five kinds of humming bird

Michaelmas Goose
You are invited to admire this dead goose before it is plucked and prepared for your Michaelmas feast

Peregrine Falcon (Morris
PEREGRINE FALCON (Falco peregrinus)

Peregrine Falcon (Anon)
PEREGRINE FALCON (Falco peregrinus)

Children Watch Robin
Two children watch a robin the barn who is standing on one leg

Gossip about Fairies 24
Fairies live on good terms with animals and birds - here, fairies are combing goats beards, something which goats themselves find it hard to do, having no hands (or combs)

Plain-Wanderer
COLLARED PLAIN WANDERER pedionomus torquatus Only one species is known, and it lives in Australia

Japanese Spring Scene
Springtime in Japan - cherry blossom and a pair of birds

Swallow / Cig. Card / 1915
Swallow - latin name: Hirundo rustica

Fieldmouse (Bewick)
mus sylvaticus - the LONG- TAILED FIELD-MOUSE : this is the Country Mouse of Aesops fable, who prefers to risk reapers and predator birds to adopting an urban lifestyle

Song of Sixpence 19C
When the pie was open the birds began to sing, and wasn t that a dainty dish to set before a king?

Extinct dinornis or moa, aepyornis ingens
An artists impression of how the extinct dinornis or moa (aepyornis ingens), a genus of flightless birds native to Madagascar, might have looked

Robin, flowers and snow scene on a Christmas card
Robin, assorted flowers and snow scene on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Darwins Pigeons
Charles Darwin gave his personal collection on pigeons to the Museum in 1867 and 1868, as part of a bigger collection of domestic birds including ducks, chickens and even cararies

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