Beautiful Animals

Genet:

The Guardian has a good article on birds in literature by Esther Woolfson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/10/bird.books -

I think it would be fun to find some photos to match...

Skipping to the chase, I'll name the birds and the books:

american eagle; Spring in Washington by Louis J. Halle

birds in cages; Jazz by Toni Morrison

pigeons, talking thrush; Natural History by Pliny

magpie; Magpie Magic by April Wilson

hummingbirds, toucans, secretary birds; Feeding Caged Birds by Kenton C. Lint and Alice Marie Lint

the pigeon (and others); A Venetian Bestiary by Jan Morris

the white bird (metaphoric); The White Bird Passes by Jessie Kesson

ravens, corvids; Ravensong - A Natural and Fabulous History of Ravens and Crows by Catherine Feher Elston

jackdaw; O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

crows and ravens; In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M Marzluff and Tony Angel

Ok, I've typed the list, now for my rest phase.

photo from this blog: greenourish.blogspot.com/ 2007/06/bald-eagle-c...


This one is from this flicker site, with a good explanation about the american bald eagle below the photo: flickr.com/photos/ 95942053@N00/284229690/

birds in cages, "including a parrot"..


this (beautiful) photo from http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2249521932_51dcb33491.jpg?v=0


from www.parrotnest.com/ Aviary.htm

canaries..

from www.geocities.com/ sierraecho1/canaries.htm

Wonderful idea and wonderful photos. You manage to find some real doozies.

Here's a thrush (not the talking variety):

And a pigeon, my kinda boid--the city dweller:

Gold-billed magpie. Never saw this before. Tres lovely:

Hummingbird:

More pigeons, these with a story in today's Los Angeles Times -








The story is here -
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rollers12-2008sep12,0,5800489.story

Thanks for the link, kiddo. I knew boids is da best.

Toucan:

Toucan on the wing:

Secretary bird:

Secretary bird in the air:

I've been looking up the San Diego Zoo aviaries (I gather there are several, it's been years since I've been there, but I loved the aviary I went through at the time..)

some great SD zoo photos on this photo blog..
www.fatlucas.com/ narrative.php?col=21


here is one - in the big bird aviary, whatever it's called..

I believe it's a harpy eagle.

that's an eagle..


and this link to the blog works better..
www.fatlucas.com/narrative.php?col=21

The reason I was looking up the zoo is that Mr. Link, one of the authors mentioned, was a curator there..

Toot toot Toucan, good bye...

Jackdaw in flight -





gorgeous pics on that website -
www.hampshirecam.co.uk/travels_apr207.html