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Flamingoes' Nests, from "The Universe", 1870. Creator: Unknown.

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Flamingoes' Nests, from "The Universe", 1870. Illustration 'from the book on "The Architecture of Birds"...[depicting] the nests of the Red Flamingo, which are built, on the ground, of coarsely tempered mud. These nests are curiously shaped, like a narrow truncated cone, about 20 in. high, with a basin at the top, in which the female lays two or three white eggs. In order to hatch the eggs by the warmth of her abdomen, she gets astride the nest, with one leg on each side of it, as shown in the attitude of the second bird'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A49_042

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,0Mo (4,5Mo) / 27,4cm x 42,0cm / 3242 x 4959 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal unusual egg arts bird birds art British flamingo nesting nest century Britain newspapers press print concept B&W behaviour shorebird flamingoes engraved engraving wading bird 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News wood engraving ILN newspaper animal behaviour bird's egg Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News bird's eggs