Charadriiformes Collection

Austalian estrildid finches
An illustration by M. W. Woodcock of some Australian estrildids, published in Derek Goodwins Estrildid Finches of the World (1982). Page 96, Plate 2

Pinguinus impennis, great auk
Oil painting on canvas by John Gerrad Keulemans (undated). 229 x 205

Pinguinus impennis, great auk
1 of 6 shots of Dr Leachs 139 great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Spotted Red Shank (male) Watercolour Plate 35
Original watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c

Charadrius melodus, piping plover
Plate 220 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Sterna antillarum, least tern
Plate 319 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

Sterna albifrons, little tern
Plate 73 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Tringa ochropus, green sandpiper
Plate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Tringa glareola, wood sandpiper
Plate 57 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Burhinus grallarius, skeleton Gould Collection
Bush stone-curlew, Burhinus grallarius, skeleton collected in Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia

Spallanzanis great auk egg
Spallanzanis great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Tristrams great auk egg
Tristrams great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Walter Rothschilds great auk egg
Walter Rothschilds great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Lord Lilfords great auk egg
Lord Lilfords great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. Also known as the Royal College of Surgeons egg No.6 The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle

Bullocks great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century. 1962.1.5 (composite image) Date: 1962

Great auk, Pinguinus impennis
The great auk, Pinguinus impennis, is one of the most powerful symbols of the damage humans can cause. The species was driven extinct as a result of centuries of intense human exploitation

Phalaropus tricolor, Wilsons phalarope
Plate 254 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Xenus cinereus
Terek sandpiper, Xenus cinereus, specimen, collected by Captain William Chambers in the Cobourg Peninsula in Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia

Turnix castanota egg, from Gould Collection
Egg of the Chestnut-backed Buttonquail, Turnix castanota, collected by John Gilbert in Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia, 5th March 1841 Date: 1841

Cream-coloured courser (juvenile)
Watercolour painting of the Courvite by Ann Latham (1772- after 1837). Held in the Library and Archives

Dr Leachs 139 great auk egg
Dr Leachs 139 great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Shore Plover Tuturuatu, Wrybill Ngutu Pare
Shore Plover Tuturuatu, Thinornis novaeseelandiae. Wrybill Ngutu Pare, Anarchynchus frontalis. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

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

Snares Island Snipe and Bar-Tailed Godwit
Snares Island Snipe Tutukiwi, Coenocorypha huegeli. Bar-tailed Godwit Kuaka, Limosa lapponica. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Black-Billed Gull and Red-Billed Gull
Black-Billed Gull Tarapuka, Larus bulleri. Red-Billed Gull Tarapunga, Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Black-Fronted and White-Fronted Terns
Black Fronted Tern Tarapirohe, Chlidonias albostriatus. White Fronted Tern Tara, Sterna striata. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Ascension, Terns and Noddies
Illustration (p.538) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1987
Wildlife Photographer of the Year advertisement poster featuring the photograph Oyster Catcher by Mike Wilkes (Winner: Animal Potraits)

Common Snipe
Illlustration of a Common Snipe by Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)

Rosss Gull
Illustration of Rosss Gull by William Jardine

Haematopus ostralegus, Eurasian oystercatcher
Plate 18 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Numenius arquata, Eurasian curlew
Plate 17 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Lymnocryptes minimus, jack snipe
Plate 80 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Burhinus oedicnemus, Eurasian stone curlew
Plate 35 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Pluvalis squatarola, grey plover and other owls
Large Series plate 6, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Philomacus pugnax, ruff
Plate 62 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Himantopus himantopus, black-winged stilt
Large Series plate 62, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Turnix sylvaticus, Common buttonquail
Plate 16 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Stercorarius skua, great skua
Plate 78 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Cursorius cursor, cream-coloured courser
Plate 44 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Tringa totanus, common redshank
Plate 54 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Glareola pratincola, collared pratincole
Plate 46 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Limosa limosa, black-tailed godwit
Plate 50 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Chlidonias leucopterus, white-winged black tern
Plate 76 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Pluvialis apricaria, Eurasian golden plover

Xema sabini, Sabines gull
Plate 67 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Calidris minuta, little stint
Plate 72 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Limnodromus griseus, short-billed dowitcher
Plate 76 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Arenaria interpres, ruddy turnstone and other birds
Large Series plate 15, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Larus hyperboreus, glaucous gull
Plate 57 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Sterna paradisaea, Arctic tern
Plate 72 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phalaropus lobatus, red-necked phalarope
Ff. 63, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Sterna caspia, Caspian tern
Plate 68 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

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

Prosobonia leucoptera, Tahiti sandpiper

Sterna sandvicensis, Sandwich tern
Plate 69 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Charadrius dubius, little ringed plover
Plate 42 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Larus canus, mew gull
Plate 60 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phalaropus fulicarius, grey phalarope
Plate 81 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Turnix sp. Buttonquail
Plate 85, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Chlidonias hybrida, whiskered tern
Plate 77 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Larus fuscus, lesser black-backed gull
Plate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Vanellus indicus, red-wattled lapwing
Plate 94, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Larus minutus, little gull
Plate 66 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Charadrius hiaticula, common ringed plover
Plate 41 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Tringa erythropus, spotted redshank
Plate 55 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Aechmorhynchus cancellatus, Kiritimati sandpiper
Ff. 64, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Larus ridibundus, common black-headed gull
Plate 64 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Rhodostethia rossii, Rosss gull
Plate 63 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Limicola falcinellus, broad-billed sandpiper
Plate 75 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Pluvialis squatrola, grey plover
Plate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Limosa lapponica, bar-tailed godwit
Plate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Scolopax rusticola, Eurasian woodcock
Plate 77 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Aethia cristatella, crested auklet
Ff. 38, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Charadrius alexandrinus, Kentish plover
Plate 40 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Charadrias morinellus, Eurasian dotterel
Plate 43 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Calidris temminckii, Temmincks stint
Plate 73 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

Larus novaehollandiae, silver gull
Watercolour 347 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New-Holland Crimson-billed Gull

Philomachus pugnax, ruff
Plate 87, hand coloured engraving from Eleazar Albins A Natural History of Birds, (1734)

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