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Have a budding artist or ornithologist in your home? Tomorrow, April 8th, is #DrawABirdDay and we’re here to provide some avian inspiration!
There are tons of lovely bird
illustrations in our books in @BioDivLibrary . Today we'll highlight a few favorites.
There are tons of lovely bird
illustrations in our books in @BioDivLibrary . Today we'll highlight a few favorites.
We'll give the obvious #DrawABirdDay choice out of the way - John James Audubon! Our copy of "The Birds of America" in @BioDivLibrary is not the famous double-elephant, but smaller, more affordable version w/ text from "Ornithological Biography" : https://s.si.edu/2lQyU0d
Next up for #DrawABirdDay inspo, John Gould's "The birds of Europe", with many gorgeous illustrations by his wife Elizabeth: https://s.si.edu/2FZBFru
Learn more about Elizabeth & her role on our blog: https://s.si.edu/2USxcfj
Learn more about Elizabeth & her role on our blog: https://s.si.edu/2USxcfj
Pigeons might be prevalent if you're looking out a city window, but we bet you've never seen any like this! These exotic examples are courtesy of Madame Knip (and a bit of publishing drama: https://s.si.edu/39xHs20 ). Find the book in @BioDivLibrary : https://s.si.edu/2Wg8STA
Artist & ornithologist Louis Agassiz Fuertes was acclaimed for his depictions of birds. Our copy of "A natural history of the ducks" (1922) has some fascinating quackers! 
@BioDivLibrary link: https://s.si.edu/3dLjS4V
More about Fuertes: https://s.si.edu/2Jxqru4 #drawabirdday
@BioDivLibrary link: https://s.si.edu/3dLjS4V More about Fuertes: https://s.si.edu/2Jxqru4 #drawabirdday
Jacob H. Sturm's "The birds of North America" (1895) packs a lot of #DrawABirdDay inspiration in each plate. Painter Theodore Jasper provided the bird portraits on which the plates were based. 
Find the whole book in @BioDivLibrary : https://s.si.edu/3aRIQ0Q .
Find the whole book in @BioDivLibrary : https://s.si.edu/3aRIQ0Q .
Overwhelmed by these great artistic examples? Though John Latham was the leading English ornithologist of his day, his illustrations are a bit more . . . simplistic.
Examples from "Supplement to the General synopsis of birds" in @BioDivLibrary : https://s.si.edu/3aE2CwO
Examples from "Supplement to the General synopsis of birds" in @BioDivLibrary : https://s.si.edu/3aE2CwO
Hope you've found some inspiration for your #DrawABirdDay activities in these great illustrations from our titles in @BioDivLibrary . There are oodles more in Flickr: https://s.si.edu/2xEpJsj
Create something for #DrawABirdDay tomorrow
? Share and tag us! We'd love to see.
Create something for #DrawABirdDay tomorrow
? Share and tag us! We'd love to see.
