Project Tag: Birds by Zoe
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Bostrychia bocagei
[Updated essay posted below] Dear Timo, Life and my head are fragmented at the moment – not so much in a bad way, but: week 10 teaching semester with anxious honours students, one month in new house and still among boxes, three deadlines this week and so on. Therefore, this month’s bird offering reflects this…
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Dromius minor
Aim: This illustrated vignette, created by Frenchman Charles Alexandre Lesueur from studies and specimens on a scientific expedition to Australia in 1807, implies a kind of ‘nuclear family’ setting but contains an impossible mix of Kangaroo Island and King Island emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae minor and Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus), and possibly mainland emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae). My…
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Geospiza heliobates
Geospiza heliobates / Camarhynchus heliobatesMangrove finch Scientists and artists know that the way to handle an immense topic is often through close attention to a small aspect of it, revealing the whole through the part. In the shape of a finch’s beak we can see all of evolution. Ursula Le Guin, reviewing Tsing’s Mushroom at…
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Hemignathus hanapepe
Digital collage, visually playing with the idea of doubt associated with reported sightings of the bird.
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Coelingena orina
Fewer than 250 of these critically endangered Colombian hummingbirds are believed to exist. The numbers are declining.
PRECARIOUS BIRDS 