A Corvidae Feathursday
Here are some more wood-engraved birds -- both black and white and hand-colored --by British author and wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) from his 1948 publication Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies. Today we display all the corvids from this volume, from top to bottom:
Common Raven (Corvus corax)
Western Jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
Red-billed Chough (pronounced "chuf"; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)
Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)
Rook (Corvus frugilegus)
Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
Read more about this book plus view a hand-colored engraving of a Hoopoe here.
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