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The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-67505-3. McGhie, Henry A (2017). Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-78499-413-6. Noakes, Vivien (1986). Edward Lear, 1812–1888 ...
A cockatoo is any of the 21 species of parrots belonging to the family Cacatuidae, ... with full-color photos and instructive line drawings. Woodbury, N.Y.: Barron's ...
Elizabeth Gould, (née Coxen; 18 July 1804 – 15 August 1841), was a British artist and illustrator at the forefront of the natural history movement.Elizabeth traveled and worked alongside her husband, naturalist and author John Gould.
About 1820, around the age of 35, Audubon declared his intention to paint every bird in North America. [12] [10] In his bird art, he mainly forsook oil paint, the medium of serious artists of the day, in favour of watercolours and pastel crayons (and occasionally pencil, charcoal, chalk, gouache, and pen and ink). As early as 1807, he developed ...
Joan Gideon Loten had provided Edwards with a drawing of the bird by the Sri Lankan artist Pieter Cornelis de Bevere; [8] the original drawing by de Bere is in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. [9] The palm cockatoo is, now, the only species within the genus Probosciger that was introduced by Heinrich Kuhl in 1820.
John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. [1]
The little corella is a small white cockatoo growing to 35–41 cm (14–16 in) in length and weighs 370–630 g (13–22 oz), with a mean weight of 525 g (1.157 lb). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is similar in appearance to both the long-billed corella and the western corella , but the little corella is smaller, and unlike either of those species, it has ...
Greater sulphur-crested cockatoo Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Cacatuidae Genus: Cacatua Species: C. galerita Subspecies: C. g. galerita Trinomial name Cacatua galerita galerita Latham, 1790 The greater sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita galerita) is the nominate subspecies of the sulphur-crested ...