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Meisei University: Birds of America — the complete sets of 435 plates of drawings, with the accompanying five volumes of textbooks. The short film John James Audubon: The Birds of America (1986) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31/September 1887/Sketch of J. J. Audubon
Download QR code; Print/export ... Owls in art (1 C, 16 P) C. Children's books about owls (18 P) ... The Owl and the Nightingale; Owl of Athena;
Drawing of "New" Woodsy. "Lend a hand—care for the land!" Costume of "New" Woodsy. Woodsy Owl is a national symbol and advertising character for the United States Forest Service [1] with the aim of motivating children to form healthy, lasting relationships with nature.
The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...
The spotted eagle-owl (Bubo africanus), also known as the African spotted eagle-owl and the African eagle-owl, is a medium-sized species of owl, one of the smallest of the eagle owls. Its length is 45 cm (18 in) and its weight is from 454 to 907 grams (1.0 to 2.0 lb). It has a 100 to 140 cm (39 to 55 in) wingspan. [3]
Detail of an eye of an eagle-owl. The genus Bubo was introduced in 1805 by the French zoologist André Duméril for the horned owls. [2] The type species is the Eurasian eagle-owl. [3]
This link goes back at least as far as Ancient Greece, where Athens, noted for art and scholarship, and Athena, Athens' patron goddess and the goddess of wisdom, had the owl as a symbol. [61] Marija Gimbutas traces veneration of the owl as a goddess, among other birds, to the culture of Old Europe, long pre-dating Indo-European cultures. [62]
Scops owls are typical owls in family Strigidae belonging to the genus Otus and are restricted to the Old World. Otus is the largest genus of owls with 59 species.Scops owls are colored in various brownish hues, sometimes with a lighter underside and/or face, which helps to camouflage them against the bark of trees.