Catalogue of Audubon's Original Drawings, exhibiting at the Lyceum of Natural History, 563 Broadway. W.G. Boggs, Printers, 27 Pine Street. https://siris-artexhibition ...
The great auk looks like a penguin, but it's not. A taxidermied penguin-looking seabird at the Cincinnati Museum Center was the last of its kind in the world. That finding was confirmed by scientists ...
Gift of A. Wetmore (autograph). https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!269178~!0#focus ...
In 1844, Jon Brandsson, Sigurdur Isleifsson, and Ketill Ketilsson set out for Eldey Island, off the southwest coast of Iceland. The three hunters were after a particular pair of rare birds: the great ...
The Cincinnati Museum Center has proven it owns one of the world's last great auks, an extinct flightless seabird. DNA research proved the specimen, nicknamed Eldey, was one of a breeding pair killed ...