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Bird and his wife Elizabeth (m. 1988) have three sons: Nicholas, who voiced Squirt in the Pixar film Finding Nemo [73] [74] and Rusty the bike boy in The Incredibles; Michael, who voiced Tony Rydinger in The Incredibles and its sequel; [75] and Jack. Bird maintains properties in Tiburon, California, and Los Feliz, California. [76]
The female is a brown bird with black-barred buffy underparts. Their feet are strong, large-clawed and pink in color. The display dance of the twelve-wired bird of paradise is called a wire-wipe display and it is performed by males to attract females by showing their flank plumes and bare pigmented thighs. Males use their 12 flank plume "wires ...
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is a 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, one of a number of candlelit scenes that Wright painted during the 1760s. The painting departed from convention of the time by depicting a scientific subject in the reverential manner formerly reserved for scenes of historical or religious ...
Bird artists (12 C, 28 P) B. Birds on coins (1 C, 10 P) C. Chickens in art (17 P) ... Pages in category "Birds in art" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
The use of bird skins to document species has been a standard part of systematic ornithology. Bird skins are prepared by retaining the key bones of the wings, legs, and skull along with the skin and feathers. In the past, they were treated with arsenic to prevent fungal and insect (mostly dermestid) attack.
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.
Birds are one of only four taxonomic groups to have evolved powered flight. A number of animals are capable of aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding. This trait has appeared by evolution many times, without any single common ancestor. Flight has evolved at least four times in separate animals: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and ...
Lawrence A. "Larry" Bird or Larry Littlebird (born 1941) is a United American Kewa Pueblo/Laguna Pueblo painter, filmmaker, actor and writer from Santo Domingo, New Mexico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He has utilized ink and tempera in his works, which often display a loose, abstracted style.