#Ornithography

[jessicaroux]

Join me tomorrow evening (Tuesday the 4th) for a virtual talk at the Wendell Gilley Museum and Southwest Harbor Public Library! I’ll be sharing my book, Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Mythology as part of their Reading with Wings program. The event is at 6pm eastern and is free to attend.🦉 If you’ll be joining us tomorrow, tell me if there’s any bird you want me to talk about!

Register for the talk here

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The labyrinthine patterns traced by birds on the wing – in pictures

Photographer: Xavier Bou

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[theanonymousninja247]

Hope

I’ve always had a strange affinity when it came to birds, for many a times in low moments, birds of all shapes, sizes and colors have come to grant me moments of reprieve in my melancholy.

There’s always a new bird for each season of my life, and it would appear I’ve entered a new season recently if the sudden increase of close encounters with American Robins have had any indication. Being the curious gal that I am, I took a peak at my Ornithography Book to see what possible symbol awaited for me to discover with these birds. Robins, as I found, are known simply to be messengers of hope and new beginnings. I found it somewhat fitting for that to be the message as a dear close friend mentioned that her orchid named after me was also turning a new leaf. New beginnings are all around me I suppose. I found it also interesting that I haven’t picked up a paper book in almost over a year. Something that often caused me some pain as I used to be able to burn through up to 5 novels a week when back in high school. And yet, on this day of bird watching, I had just closed the pages of a 200+ paged book, the second one in two days.

Made me stop and smile, to think that I was healing. I AM healing. It isn’t exactly the same passion at fervor that had held me captive all those years ago, but I’m getting to the point where sunshine and going out doesn’t feel like a chore anymore.

It’s something I yearn after, something to live for.

Looks like the Robins were right.

[wtf-tfw]

hymenoptera? but she be waspish!!

[fragariavescana]

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[phantomtomes]

I want to make everyone aware that Jessica Roux has a new book on birds called Ornithography that is equally gorgeous and in the same style!!! I highly recommend both!!

🍂 I am utterly in love with this book and learning about Victorian flower language. 🍂

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[birbs-in-space]

trick or treat!!!!! very looking forward to the music

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in true Halloween fashion you're the first person to come to the door by 9pm so I am giving you a handful of treats ahaha

first up, a recent favorite — morbid obsessions by we are the union. this one kinda knocked me over the head when I first heard it so I keep coming back to it. it's really good, though a bit heavy

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next — ms. me by bruce lee band. (as in miss me) another favorite and eminently repeatable. definitely a candidate to make a seamless 10 minute edit of ahaha

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and finally — ghost town by the holophonics (a cover of the original by the specials). the original is a ska song too, but this one's a bit more active and more explicitly Halloween themed :D gotta keep it topical!

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thank you so much for stopping by!! I hope you enjoy the music!

[featheredprince]

Ornithographies: Bird flight path photography by Xavi Bou

[i-dont-think-thats-true]

I don’t think that’s true

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[jessicaroux]

The Magpie, another one of the 100 birds featured in my upcoming book, Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism. Coming out September 24th and published by @andrewsmcmeel 🪶 Preorder wherever you like to get your books.

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The labyrinthine patterns traced by birds on the wing – in pictures

Photographer: Xavier Bou

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[nohoperadio]

@maverick-ornithography:

the reason its not necessarily an obvious connection is because dodos were neotenous! they remarkably resemble nestling pigeons if they never grew out of their proportions (but did otherwise increase in size)

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Baby pigeons ARE just like little mini dodos, holy moly... that makes this whole situation way more interesting, it's not that dodos made it into the pigeon club on a genetic technicality, their pigeonness is manifest and obvious if you know where to look for it... beautiful!

what the hell why am I only just today learning that dodos were pigeons...

[helenmask]

I got back from Powell’s books listening to the amazing artist Jessica Roux talk about her newest book Ornithography and illustrated guide to bird lore & symbolism, and I felt the need to sketch birds!! So here is a pigeon, cardinal, and a bluejay dripping in jewels.

When I was in Arizona this past may I had someone ask if I had and pigeon art and in Seattle I was asked if I had any blue Jay art so I’m filling those needs that people mentioned 😁

[mysunfreckle]

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Here there be credits!

Marvellous text by @krindor, in reply to @micewithknive's post and @triquizzies' comment.

Inspired by @itsbenedict's flawless reading of @maverick-ornithography's infamous post.

Pelican image source [X].

Music: Ambuscade by Purple Planet.

With love to @starkey <3