"I think every birder has a secret fantasy of finding some lost or extinct species in his or her backyard. I'm certainly no different."
Editor Dale Tucker attempts to identify the many species of birds depicted throughout The Met collection.
Connections: Birding
Editor Dale Tucker attempts to identify the many species of birds depicted throughout The Met collection.
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Martin Johnson Heade
1875
Martin Johnson Heade
ca. 1875–85
Martin Johnson Heade
ca. 1876–81
Japan
late 16th century
Carleton E. Watkins
1868–69
Chimú artist(s)
1400 - 1700 CE
Moche
6th–7th century
Santa Cruz Islands
late 19th–early 20th century
Itzocan artist(s)
1200–1521 CE
Solomon Islander
19th–early 20th century
Iban people
late 19th–early 20th century
Charles Meryon
ca. 1846–55
Charles Martin
1913
Josef Diveky
Wiener Werkstätte
1911
Melchior d' Hondecoeter
1683
late 13th century
Mansur
Mir 'Ali Haravi
verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1535–45
Habiballah of Sava
Farid al-Din `Attar
ca. 1600
ca. 1780
Netherlandish
15th century
Ernest Vogt
ca. 1864