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Tag: ornithology
March 22, 2013
Audubon’s Aviary: The Complete Flock. Amazing exhibit at the New York Historical Society #wow @nyhistory
“On display now through May 19 at the New York Historical Society is the first of three installations in Audubon’s Aviary: The Complete Flock, the society’s unprecedented exhibition of 474 paintings.”
From New York Historical Society, via Wired.
February 14, 2013
A very funny BBC nature video.
From the BBC One show ‘Funny Talking Animals – Walk On The Wild Side’
February 14, 2013
Weaver Birds Plus Telephone Poles Equal Strangely Compelling Artwork.
More on the Weaver Bird here.
“In the vast barren landscapes of the southern Kalahari, Sociable Weaver Birds assume ownership of the telephone poles that cut across their habitat.Their burgeoning nests are at once inertly statuesque and teeming with life. The twigs and grass collected to build these nests combine to give strangely recognisable personalities to the otherwise inanimate poles.”
By Dillon Marsh, via Notcot.org
January 28, 2013
If you ever doubt that majesty and beauty exists in the natural world, then watch this: A Bird Ballet
These starlings are best viewed in HD, on a large screen, in a comfy dark spot, headphones, the whole works…
A bird ballet | Short Film from Neels CASTILLON on Vimeo.
By Neels Castillon, ia Colossal.
December 22, 2012
Sciencegeek Advent Calendar Extravaganza! – Day 22
CHRISTMASY BIODIVERSITY TRADING CARDS
From the Phylo Project (Click on the card to go to webpage)
(see more of Popperfont’s Sciencegeek Advent Calendar Extravanganza here)
November 29, 2012
Birds on Twitter (this is so seriously awesome)
“Latvian conceptual artist and creative director Voldemars Dudums created this insanely clever bird feeder using an old computer keyboard and some cubes of bacon fat. When the birds would fly down to snack their inadvertent key presses were fed to an api that parsed each little tap into a bonafide tweet on the @hungry_birds Twitter account”
By Voldemars Dudums, text via Colossal.
November 22, 2012
Strapping a camera on a pigeon? Sounds about right.
“Photographing with birds is anything but a new idea. It was actually invented a little over a century ago, in 1907, by a German photography pioneer named Julius Neubronner.
Neubronner worked as an apothecary (i.e. an old-school independent pharmacist) and used carrier pigeons to rush deliver medications to clients. After one of his pigeons returned four weeks late, Neubronner came up with the wacky idea of sticking a camera onto his pigeons in order to glimpse into their activities.”
Text by Michael Zhang at Petapixel. There’s also a wikipedia entry on this topic.
November 21, 2012
Talk about interdisciplinary: Discrete Mathematics with Ducks.
By Sarah-Marie Belcastro. You can actually buy this textbook. Would make for an interesting gift, although I might hold out for “Advanced Discrete Mathematics with Geese.”
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