Is it already Feathursday??

This greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) is racing into the weekend full speed ahead!

SciArt by Robert Wilson Shufeldt for Ibis (1885), the scientific journal of the British Ornithologists’ Union.

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History (@amnhnyc) for digitizing.

️‍ Happy Pride Month! ️‍

Insects are some of the most colorful and diverse species of all biodiversity. These  moths  and butterflies are by Emile-Allain Séguy for his Papillons (1925). Seguy’s work shows his deep interest in the study of insects as well as his artistic expression in these remarkable designs, which were likely intended for textiles or wallpaper.

Figures 1 and 2: Madagascan sunset moths (Chrysiridia rhipheus)

Figure 3: Green-banded Urania moth (Urania leilus)

Figures 4 and 5: Red flasher butterflies (Panacea prola zaraja)

View in Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

Happy Amphibian Week!

Amphibian Week wouldn’t be complete without sharing Ernst Haeckel’s study of frogs from his Kunstformen der Natur(1899).

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries for digitizing.

Happy Amphibian Week!

Fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) are found throughout Europe. 

SciArt by J. Green for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London(1911).View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

Happy International Leopard Day!

Leopards (Panthera pardus) are the most widespread of the big cats.

SciArt by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert for Richard Lydekker,Wild Life of the World, Vol. 2 (1916).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Gerstein Science Information Centre of the University of Toronto Libraries for digitizing.

Explore more public domain illustrations uploaded by Biodiversity Heritage Library in their Flickr account and gathered into my gallery.

Once upon a time, there was a dodo and a guinea pig….

SciArt from Gleanings of Natural History (1760) by George Edwards. View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the National Library Board, Singapore for digitizing.

Banded Peacock Butterfly

Papilio crino.

SciArt from An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China (1798) by Edward Donovan.

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the University Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for digitizing.

Happy Frog Friday!

Gliding leaf frogs (Agalychnis spurrelli) are nocturnal natives of tropical rainforests in Central and South America. 

SciArt by J. Green for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1913). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library  with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

It’s World Curlew Day!

Far eastern curlew (Numenius madagascariensis). 

SciArt from John Gould’s Birds of Australia, Vol. 6 (1848).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

Happy Feathursday!

Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica). On the right is the subspecies that can be found in Egypt.

SciArt from Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas, Vol. 4 (1901). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

Look at this CHONK!

Common Atlantic octopus(Octopus vulgaris). 

SciArt by L. Bintot for British Conchology, Vol. 5 (1869) by John Gwyn Jeffreys.

Viewin Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

Botanic Monday: Red Sun Cactus

Red sun cactus (Disocactus speciosus) for Botanic Monday.

SciArt from Fortsetzung des Allgemeinen teutschen Garten-Magazins, Vol. 5 (1820).

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to Harvard Herbaria and Botany Libraries for digitizing.

Blue-spotted Wrasse

Anampses caeruleopunctatus.

SciArt from the Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Bd. 4, Heft. 11, 13, 15 (1876-1881).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Library and Archives of the Natural History Museum, London for digitizing.

Orchids

Encyclia dichroma.

SciArt by Alphonse Goossens for Alfred Cogniaux, Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees: Epidendrum(1896-1907).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden (@mobotgarden) for digitizing.

Happy Feathursday!

Eurasian spoonbill(Platalea leucorodia).

SciArt by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould for The Birds of Europe, Vol. 4 (1837). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

Happy Flora Friday!

Lady slipper orchids(Paphiopedilum stonei) are the perfect botanical inspiration for some fancy footwear.

SciArt by John Nugent Fitch for The Floral Magazine, Vol. 9 (1880). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden (@nybg) for digitizing.

Happy World Bivalve Day!

Do you ❤️ molluscs? Then this heart cockle(Corculum cardissa) is for you!

SciArt from General Conchology (1815) by William Wood. View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Year of the Tiger

Tiger(Panthera tigris) SciArt from the Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and of the Physical Sciences, Vol. 2 (1839-40). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology for digitizing.

Happy Moth Monday!

Atlas moth(Attacus atlas).

SciArt by Edward Donovan from his Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China(1798).View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the University Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for digitizing.

HSA Sunday Garden

Clematis variety.

SciArt by Worthington George Smith for The Floral Magazine, Vol. 3 (1874). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden for digitizing.