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READING

Plant Identification Terminology
The Sibley Guide
to Birds


Birds, Nests and Eggs
Birds, Nests
and Eggs


The Life of Birds
The Life of Birds (DVD)


binoculars
Bushnell Powerview Wide Angle Binoculars


Bird Areas
American Bird Conservancy Guide to 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the US


Bird Life and Behaviour
Golden Wings and Other Stories About Birders and Birding


Bird Life and Behaviour
Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behaviour


Birdfeeder Book
Stokes Birdfeeder Book


Bird Calls
Bird Calls
(Play the Sounds,
Pull the Tabs)




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Birds Posters, Prints & Charts, pg 2/2
for the science and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, theme decor.


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A Shy Albatross in Flight in a Clear Blue Sky, This Species is Considered Vulnerable, Photographic Print
A Shy Albatross in Flight
in a Clear Blue Sky,
Photographic Print

Albatrosses are large seabirds, one species having the largest wingspan of living birds. Albatrosses are legendary their clumsiness on land and for their ability to cover vast distances in the air; they are regarded by some as the souls of lost sailors.

Albatrosses are prominent symbols in literature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the sailor who shot an albatross dead is forced to wear the dead bird around his neck, and Charles Baudelaire wrote The Albatross.


Nineteen of twenty one albatross species are in danger of extinction due to pollution, food depletion by overfishing, and methods of fishing that entangle and kill the birds.

The albatross has lent its name to several early flying machines, and its image is represented in emblems of organizations involved in the oceans and seas.


The Earliest Bird, Archaeopteryx, Fossil Skeleton with Feathers, Photographic Print
The Earliest Bird, Archaeopteryx,
Fossil Skeleton
with Feathers,
Photographic Print

Archaeopteryx (“AR-kee-OP-ter-iks”), the most primitive bird known, has more in common with dinosaur than with modern birds even though it had the ability to fly. The name comes from the Greek archaios = ancient + pteryx = feather/wing.

The preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past are called fossils (Latin fossus = “having been dug up”).

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight


Turkey Vulture, Photographic Print
Turkey Vulture,
Photographic Print

Buzzards or Turkey Vultures have returned to the area of Hinckley, Ohio on March 15th for years.


Fisherman with His Fishing Cormorants, Guangzhou, China, Photographic Print
Fisherman with His
Fishing Cormorants,
Photographic Print



Cormorants are seabirds whose natural ability to dive into water and bring back fish to eat on shore was exploited by humans. The word cormorant means 'sea raven'; the roots are corvus, the genus of crows and ravens, and marinus, ‘of the sea’. [VisualThesaurus]

• more China posters
• more seafood posters
Pelicans, Cormorants, and Their Kin


Flamingos Posters
Flock of Flamingos
Photographic Print

Flamingos, wading birds in the genus Phoenicopterus, are very social birds that live in colonies that can number in the thousands. Flamingo species are found in both the Old and New World.

Flamingos are the national bird of the Bahamas and pink plastic flamingos mimicing the habit of flamingos to stand on one leg, are popular lawn ornaments.

Alice plays croquet with the Flamingo, Giclee Print


Jackdaw, Giclee Print
Jackdaw,
Giclee Print

The jackdaw is a passerine bird in the species Corvus, the genus of crows and ravens. The Jackdaw of Rheims, by Richard Barham, is about a jackdaw who steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint.

FYI - Passerines are the perching birds, characterized by having four toes, three directed forward and one backward, joining the foot at the same level.


Dodo, Art Print
Dodo,
Art Print



Dodos (Raphus cucullatus) were flightless birds native to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

Poster text:
D for the Dodo,
no more we shall meet,
See his hooked bill,
and his short wings and feet!

The dodo has been extinct since the mid 17th century due to human activity.


Egrets, Art Print, John James Audubon
Egrets, Art Print,
John James Audubon

Egrets are a tall, white wading bird found on every continent except Antarctica. They are herons, members of the order Pelecaniformes.

The Great Egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society which was first established to protect birds from feather hunters that decorated the fashionable hats made famous by such actresses as Lily Elsie.

Egrets, herons are member of the order Pelecaniformes


Falcon and Its Hunting Hood, Giclee Print
Falcon and
Its Hunting Hood,
Giclee Print

Falcons are any species of raptor in the genus Falco which are found throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Falconry, training birds of prey to catch game, is more than 3,000 years old, beginning with nomads in central Asia. Today Peregrine falcons are also occasionally used to scare away birds at airports to reduce the risk of bird-plane strikes, thus improving air-traffic safety.

Hunting Falcon


Canadian Geese, Giclee Print
Canadian Geese,
Giclee Print

Canada Geese flying in V-shaped formation are a familiar signal of the seasonal transitions into spring and autumn.

Canada posters


Glass Mosaic Peacock Dating from the Late 19th Century, in City Palace, Udaipur, India, Photographic Print
Glass Mosaic Peacock Dating from the Late 19th Century, in City Palace, Udaipur, India,
Photographic Print

The Peacock is the National Bird of India.


Glass Mosaic Peacock Dating from the Late 19th Century, in City Palace, Udaipur, India, Photographic Print
Glass Mosaic Peacock Dating from the Late 19th Century, in City Palace, Udaipur, India,
Photographic Print

Pelicans


Ho-Wo Bird, Japanese Phoenix, Giclee Print
Ho-Wo Bird,
Japanese Phoenix,
Giclee Print

The phoenix, a mythological bird of rebirth and resurrection, is found in many cultures - Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Native American. The phoenix is most often represented as a firebird; the word may be related back to the Phoenicians.

Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery : An East-West Dialogue on Death and Rebirth from the Worlds of Religion, Science, Psychology, Philosophy


Illustration for 'The Raven', by Edgar Allen Poe, 1875, Giclee Print
Illustration for
Edgar Allen Poe's
'The Raven',
by Édouard Manet, 1875,
Giclee Print

Ravens are highly intelligence birds, perhaps as wolves and some breeds of dogs.

... Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more. ...

The American Society of Crows and Ravens
Impressionist posters, Manet
• more Edgar Allan Poe posters


Resplendent Quetzal (male) Bearing Food for its Nestlings, Photographic Print
Resplendent Quetzal, Photographic Print

Resplendent Quetzal is a member of the Trogoniformes order. The word trogon, Greek for “nibbling”, refers to their habit of gnawing holes in trees to make nests.

Trogons are also heterodactyly, their digits (toes/claws) numbers 3 and 4 point forward and digits 1 and 2 point back.

• The Quetzal is the source of the long green feathers for the Aztec's rituals.


White Stork (Ciconia Alba), Giclee Print
White Stork (Ciconia Alba),
Giclee Print

Storks have long been of interest to people due to their large size, ability to feast on vermin, and willingness to nest close to human habitation.

In Germany, where storks are the national bird, they were thought to prevent fires and people encouraged them to nest on houses by building high platforms around the chimney.

Storks are in the order Ciconiiformes.


Migration of Swallows, Giclee Print
Migration of Swallows, Giclee Print

Swallows and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding of insects (and dive bombing cats, who if smart, choose to watch from a safe place - personal observation).

Swallows are migratory birds and among the most celebrated journeys in the world is the cliff swallows annual flight between Argentina and the American Southwest. The Mission of San Juan Capistrano in California has claimed the swallow as its icon because their nesting in the eves and archways of the buildings.

Mary Ellen Edwards, illustrator - Thoughtful Girl Watches the Swallows Migrate to Warmer Climes


Mute Swan, Splashing During Bathing, UK, Photographic Print
Mute Swan
Photographic Print


Swans, genus Cygnus, are in the same family as geese and ducks. The word swan is from the Indo-European swen, and the Latin sonus (to sound, to sing).

Because swans mate for life and are very beautiful birds, they carry symbolic meaning in human culture: the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, in Hinduism the swan in the vehicle of many dieties, Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Ugly Duckling about a young swan, Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin uses the Swan Knight legend, and Tchaikovsky gave us the ballet Swan Lake.


Lyre Bird poster
Lyre Bird Poster

Lyre Bird

L for the Lyre Bird,
a mimic so sharp,
Stately he stands,
with a tail like a harp.

• more alphabet posters


Four Finches from the Galapagos Archipelago, Galapagos, Ecuador Giclee Print
Four Finches from the Galapagos Archipelago, Galapagos, Ecuador
Giclee Print

Four Finches from the Galapagos Archipelago, Galapagos, Ecuador

Charles Darwin posters


Dove of Peace poster - Picasso
Dove of Peace poster - Picasso

Dove of Peace- Colombe Avec Fleurs
by Picasso

• more peace posters


Day and Night, M. C. Escher, Fine Art Print
Day and Night, M. C. Escher,
Art Print

Day and Night
by M.C. Escher

• more Escher posters


Motivational - Leaders Bald Eagle
Motivational - Leaders Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle - Leaders

“Leadership is action, not position.”

motivational posters


Two Hopi Indians with Bird Head Masks Art Print
Two Hopi Indians with Bird Head Masks Art Print

Two Hopi Indians with Bird Head Masks

• more mask posters
• more Native Americans posters



Giant Flip and Learn Wall Chart
Giant Flip and Learn
Wall Chart

Giant Flip-and-Learn Wall Chart
Opens into an easel with 16 brightly colored flip charts boldly introduce your kids to numbers, shapes, ABCs, and telling time, as well as animals, dinosaurs, insects, birds and more.

• more reading posters


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