EditorialBlack-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus, and pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. P...
EditorialLong-legged Avocet. Dated: 1836. Dimensions: plate: 37.8 x 52.1 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.) sheet: 67.6 x 68 cm (26 5/8 x 26 3/4 in.). Medium: hand-colored etching and aquatint on Whatman paper.
EditorialLong-legged Avocet. Dated: 1836. Dimensions: plate: 37.8 x 52.1 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.) sheet: 67.6 x 68 cm (26 5/8 x 26 3/4 in.). Medium: hand-colored etching and aquatint on Whatman paper.
EditorialAmerican Avocet, American Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra americana), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 353 (vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in th...
EditorialOne bird. Colour Illustration by Audubon; Long-legged Avocet. The Birds of America, from original drawings. London, 1827-38. Source: N.L.TAB.2.(3) plate 328.
EditorialBirds: plovers, oystercatchers, avocets, flamingos, snipe birds, whales, 1. The hooded kibitz, 2. The oystercatcher, 3. The blue-footed avocet, 4. The dark-winged stilt, 5. The European flamingo, 6. The big curlew, 7. The Snipe, 8. The Black Coot, Plat...
EditorialAmerican Avocet, American Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra americana), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 353 (vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in th...
EditorialRecurvirostra americana, Print, The American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. This avocet spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from...
EditorialCladorhynchus pectoralis, Print, Banded stilt, The banded stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) is a nomadic wader of the stilt and avocet family, Recurvirostridae, native to Australia. It belongs to the monotypic genus Cladorhynchus. It gets its name fr...
EditorialRecurvirostra avosetta (Pied avocet). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm ? w 480 mm; h 407 mm ? w 251 mm; h 354 mm ? w 251 mm.
EditorialOne bird. Colour Illustration by Audubon; Long-legged Avocet. The Birds of America, from original drawings. London, 1827-38. Source: N.L.TAB.2.(3) plate 328.
EditorialLong-legged Avocet. Dated: 1836. Dimensions: plate: 37.8 x 52.1 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.) sheet: 67.6 x 68 cm (26 5/8 x 26 3/4 in.). Medium: hand-colored etching and aquatint on Whatman paper.
EditorialLong-legged Avocet. Dated: 1836. Dimensions: plate: 37.8 x 52.1 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.) sheet: 67.6 x 68 cm (26 5/8 x 26 3/4 in.). Medium: hand-colored etching and aquatint on Whatman paper.
EditorialAmerican avocet, Recurvirostra americana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815.
EditorialPied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, and ruff, Philomachus pugnax. Handcoloured engraving by widow Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), P...
EditorialPied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, and greater flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Pardinel after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837.
EditorialBlack-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus, and pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. P...
EditorialPied avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own "Natural History of British Birds," London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and e...