#flamingoes

American Flamingo

A Feathursday in Paradise

This chromolithograph focuses on the Paradise Flycatcher (Genus: Terpsiphone) but it also depicts a number of other bird species, including some Black-headed Ibises (Threskiornis melanocephalus), some night herons (probably the Black-crowned, Nycticorax nycticorax), a Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina), a Flamingo (Greater or Lesser, we don't know), and some unidentified egrets, although we are unsure if all these birds can actually be found in same area of paradise. We also can't tell what species of Paradise Flycatcher is being depicted, as it seems to have markings from different species.

Once again, this print is by the noted Boston lithographing firm L. Prang & Company for Animate Creation by the English natural history popularizer J. G Wood (1827-1889), published in New York in three volumes by Selmar Hess in 1885. Our copy of is a revised edition, adapted to American zoology by the American physician and zoologist Joseph B. Holder, of an earlier British publication by Wood first published in London by George Routledge as The Illustrated Natural History in 1853.

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Today, the last day of National Poetry Month in the U.S., is also Poem in Your Pocket Day, so here's a little poem I hope you enjoy. Have a good day, all.

TEXT:

FLAMINGOES

The mother draws up one leg And pins it tight to her body As if she needed no other.

🛟🦩🐰Snoop's Flamingo Floaty🐰🦩🛟