Grey Heron Gallery

Birds, hand-colored lithograph, published in 1880

1) Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta), 2) capercaillie cock (Tetrao urogallus), 3) Ostrich (Struthio camelus), 4) Male Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), 5) Gray partridge (Perdix perdi), 6) Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), 7) Flamingo, (Phoenicopterus ruber), 8) Great Bustard (Otis tarda), 9) Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), 10) Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata). Hand-colored lithograph from my archive, published in 1880

Grey heron, Ardea cinerea, and boat-billed

Grey heron, Ardea cinerea, and boat-billed heron, Cochlearius cochlearius. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Grey Heron -Ardea cinerea-, on the shore of a pond in winter, Cologne, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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