The Eclectic Light CompanyNatural history paintings of Bruno Liljefors 2
Chris Bond#1232 George Fox Tregelles (ed) - Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Report and Transactions, 1891-92. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Penzance, 1892.
#Penzance #Cornwall #Antiquities #Archaeology #NaturalHistory #AncientCrosses #BookOfTheDay
Natural history paintings of Bruno Liljefors 1
Global MuseumThe UK's Natural History Museum breaks all-time record for visitor figures.
But attractions report 'toughest year since pandemic' amid cost pressures and growing competition
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/03/natural-history-museum-breaks-all-time-record-for-visitor-figures/# #globalmuseum #museums #naturalhistory
But attractions report 'toughest year since pandemic' amid cost pressures and growing competition
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/03/natural-history-museum-breaks-all-time-record-for-visitor-figures/# #globalmuseum #museums #naturalhistory
CarolannieChasing nature and loving it to death
#Ecology #NaturalHistory #Conservation #Restoration #Sustainability
(6) Birdwatching's Carbon Problem - by Bryan Pfeiffer
https://chasingnature.substack.com/p/birdwatchings-carbon-problem-c3a
Trails to increase access to nature can be... devastating
#Ecology #NaturalHistory #Conservation
No legal protections for rare slimleaf onion | The Narwhal
https://thenarwhal.ca/nanaimo-slimleaf-onion-disturbed/
"... when the focus is on native plants to help bring back birds, butterflies, and other species, it’s also a form of resistance, in a cause that can unite conservatives and progressives."
#Ecology #NaturalHistory #Conservation #Restoration
https://richardconniff.substack.com/p/american-wildlife-wants-you-in-the
#Ecology #NaturalHistory #Conservation #Restoration
https://richardconniff.substack.com/p/american-wildlife-wants-you-in-the
OccasionalDucksExcellent episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage on birds -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09ly26f?
#Birding #Birds #InfiniteMonkeyCage #Radio #Radio4 #BBCR4 #NaturalHistory
WhileWereBothRunningLate-night research: the Rijksmuseum holds two engravings from the 1598 Dutch expedition to Mauritius: camp scenes showing sailors alongside live dodos. Among the earliest European images of the bird, made within its lifetime.
The dodo went extinct 64 years after first contact. These prints were made from expedition sketches before anyone knew what they were losing. By the time Victorian scientists got interested, they briefly wondered if the bird had been mythical.
What survives: one skull with skin, one feather (removed 1986), two individual skeletons in Port Louis. Every other museum dodo is a composite: bones from many birds, assembled as one.
#NaturalHistory #Dodo #Rijksmuseum #Europeana
The dodo went extinct 64 years after first contact. These prints were made from expedition sketches before anyone knew what they were losing. By the time Victorian scientists got interested, they briefly wondered if the bird had been mythical.
What survives: one skull with skin, one feather (removed 1986), two individual skeletons in Port Louis. Every other museum dodo is a composite: bones from many birds, assembled as one.
#NaturalHistory #Dodo #Rijksmuseum #Europeana
Ry ChazA fact to recall when confronted by the constant hate-drivel coming from the USA about #LGBT people:
Nature doesn't create 'straight' lines.
Nature expresses and ensures survival with variation, curves, bends, texture, depth etc.
Straightness is NO part of that.
The artist #Hundertwasser knew this and omitted straight lines - just look up his architectural designs or paintings. He was convinced 'straight' was such an unnatural extreme that it stressed the human nervous system.
Something which can now probably be applied to anyone straight, playing the bigotry cards to claim faux superiority.
#art #history #naturalhistory #stopthehate #fact #usafail #farrightfail #factcheck #USA #Trump #bornagainbigots #corruption