Scarlet tanager, claw_2014-04-21-13.56.10 ZS PMax (by Sam Droege)
Source: Flickr / usgsbiml
Screed Owl - Red Owl
"A single owl is depicted perched on a branch holding a rodent with the claws of its right foot"
...watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s...
Source: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com
(via BibliOdyssey: Toucans)
'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, Suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus' -- François Levaillant ; Jacques Barraband ; Perée, Jacques Louis ; Grémillier ; Bouquet, Louis, Paris : Denné le jeune / Perlet, 1806.
Source: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com
The ʻIʻiwi, or Scarlet Hawaiian Honeycreeper, with an elongated bill adapted for extracting nectar from flowers.
Source: blogs.smithsonianmag.com
"In case of a continuous surf islands are surrounded with a wide band of sea foam saturated with green algae that are so loved by the birds."
Source: englishrussia.com
n436_w1150 (by BioDivLibrary)
Iconographie ornithologique Paris :Chez Friedrich Klincksieck [etc., etc.],1849 [i.e. 1845-1849] biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109479
Source: Flickr / biodivlibrary
Peek-a-Hoot (#1, Explore) (by MistyDays / CB)
Source: Flickr / stormygirl
Macaws (by Today is a good day)
Source: Flickr / good_day
Owl 3 (by hairygit1965)
Source: Flickr / hairygit
owl #1- highest spot was #55 on explore (by Eyesplash)
Source: Flickr / eyesplash