william_kent
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let's blame "them"!
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let's blame "them"!
some fucking American "nature artist" tried to eat every bird he ever painted
Eating the Birds of America: Audubon’s Culinary Reviews of America’s Birds - US Bird History
On June 26, 1826, John James Audubon sat aboard the cotton schooner Delos off of Florida’s Gulf coast, en route from New Orleans to Liverpool, where he was hoping to find a publisher for his extensive portfolio of paintings of American birds.[1] On this particular day, the winds were still...usbirdhistory.com
The interesting thing is that the most well-known org for the protection of birds here is named after him, and that's not the only controversy about that man, and that the Aududon Society is named after him.
mvuent
Void Dweller
definitely a photo that stays in your mind. as someone else pointed out, there's something haunting about the way it's walking out of frame. leaving our world for the world of myth.The two like this I often think of are that whale they call the world's loneliest because its call's a different frequency to the others and that photo of the last Barbary lion in the Atlas mountains.
(tangentially related, but i didn't realize until recently how significant the discovery of whale song was in the history of field recording, with this record becoming an unexpected hit in the early 70s. an allmusic review contends that "something about these initial recordings . . . continues to stand above all other similar efforts" and i sort of get what they mean. funny to think of blissblogger's thing about breakthrough aura applying to recordings of nature...)
IdleRich
IdleRich
The two like this I often think of are that whale they call the world's loneliest because its call's a different frequency to the others and that photo of the last Barbary lion in the Atlas mountains.
There's Lonely George the last galapagos tortoise or something - or the last of his particular type thereof - and that albatross believed last of its kind that flies around the world looking fruitlessly for a mate. Also I think there is a photo of (probably) the last Tasmanian tiger in a zoo somewhere unaware his species had been hunted to extinction.
The lion looks as though it's on a beach, about to do a Reginald Perrin.
IdleRich
IdleRich
william_kent
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bird photography winners of 2024
overall winner is
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An impactful image showing over 4,000 birds that died colliding with windows in Toronto
woops
is not like other people
i was the shadow of the waxwing slain, etcbird photography winners of 2024
overall winner is
An impactful image showing over 4,000 birds that died colliding with windows in Toronto
william_kent
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Years ago during a Saturday shift of listening to whining old people who didn't know what an ampersand is - KLUNK! what the fuck! Is someone throwing bricks at the window? - I rushed to the source of the noise and noticed a bloody smear on the glass - on closer inspection I spotted a pigeon thrashing around on the grass outside - despite my childhood dream of being a veterinarian, there was no way I was touching that disease ridden mass of feathers, so a colleague phoned up the RSPCA only to be told "we won't help, pigeons are vermin, leave it to die" and who were we to ignore the words of an expert? On the plus side it probably made a filling meal for one of the seagulls...
