New on the blog for #WhoopingCraneDay:

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for Whooping Crane Day: Audubon's "Hooping Cranes"

For #WhoopingCraneDay :

N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)

The Dance of the Whooping Cranes, 1939

oil on panel, 30 x 22¼ in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm);

printed as a plate in the illustrated edition of The Yearling (1939)

For #WhoopingCraneDay:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) "Whooping Crane", from the Vanishing Animals series, 1986 Color offset lithograph, 10 7/16 x 10 5/16 in. (265 x 262 mm) Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [educational use]

Happy #WhoopingCraneDay!

“The Hooping Crane” in George Edwards’ A Natural History of Birds Pt. 3, 1750.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Yes, he illustrated it perching on an enlarged side view of its own giant beak. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯