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Extraordinary Birds

Title page of a 1758 edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae

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Hoopoe, Upupa Epops, from Gesner's Historiae animalium liber III, qui est de avium natura

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Peregrine Falcon, Falco Peregrinus, from Aldrovandi's Ornithologiae, hoc est de avibus historia libri XII

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White stork, Ciconia Ciconia, eating snake in wetland from Belon's L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux

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Amoenitates academicae. 1749

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Amoenitates academicae. 1749

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Title page from Vieillot's Histoie natruelle des oiseaux de L'Amerique septentrionale

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Western Capercaillie perched on branch, Tetrao Urogallus

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Skeletal anatomy of humans and birds from Belon's L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux

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Illustration of a disected pigeon

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Reproductive system of a female bird in breeding condition

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Pair of Falco biarmicus from Gould's The birds of Europe

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Eggs of the Common Murre, Uria aalge (left,) and Razorbill, Alca torda (right,) from Capen's Oology of New England

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Great Egret, Ardea Alba, from Sloane's A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica

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Black Skimmer from Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands

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Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus Principalis, from Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Island

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Map depicting British, French and Spanish colonies from Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands

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Didus cucullatus from Rothschild's Extinct birds

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Male and female Anhinga from Audbon's The birds of America

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Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, from Audubon's The birds of America

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