Wild Life Collection (page 11)

American Goldfinch, Fringilla Tristis, 1845
American Goldfinch, Fringilla Tristis. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Purple Grakle or Common Crow Blackbird, 1845
Purple Grakle or Common Crow Blackbird, Quiscalus Versicolor. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

American Bittern, Botaurus Lentiginosus, 1845
American Bittern, Botaurus Lentiginosus. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Bonapartian Gull, Larus Bonapartii, 1845
Bonapartian Gull, Larus Bonapartii. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

American Avocet, Recurvirostra Americana, 1845
American Avocet, Recurvirostra Americana. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Great Tern, Sterna Hirundo, 1845
Great Tern, Sterna Hirundo. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Dusky Duck, Anas Obscura, 1845
Dusky Duck, Anas Obscura. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Great White Heron, Ardea Occidentalis, 1845
Great White Heron, Ardea Occidentalis. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Common Cormorant, Phalacrocorax Carbo, 1845
Common Cormorant, Phalacrocorax Carbo. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Frigate Pelican, Tachypetes Aquilis, 1845
Frigate Pelican, Tachypetes Aquilis. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Fork Tailed Petrel, Thalassidroma Leachii, 1845
Fork Tailed Petrel, Thalassidroma Leachii. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Eider Duck, Fuligula Mollissima, 1845
Eider Duck, Fuligula Mollissima. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Hooping Crane, Grus Americana, 1845
Hooping Crane, Grus Americana. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

American Coot, Fulica Americana, 1845
American Coot, Fulica Americana. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Ring-Billed Gull, Larus Delawarensis, 1845
Ring-Billed Gull, Larus Delawarensis. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Barn Owl, Tyto Alba, 1845
Barn Owl, Tyto Alba. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Red Crossbill, Loxia Curvirostra, 1845
Red Crossbill, Loxia Curvirostra. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

American White Pelican, Pelecanus Erythrorhynchos, 1845
American White Pelican, Pelecanus Erythrorhynchos. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Great Egret, Casmerodius Albus, 1845
Great Egret, Casmerodius Albus. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Great Cinereous Owl, Strix Nebulosa, 1845
Great Cinereous Owl, Strix Nebulosa, from The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Northern Gannet, Morus Bassanus, 1845
Northern Gannet, Morus Bassanus. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

Zebra Migration
Annual migration of over one million Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and 200, 000 zebras. Photographed in Spring April in Serengeti, Tanzania

Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
Old World Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) Butterfly on a flower Photographed in Israel, Summer July

Common myna Acridotheres tristis
Common myna (or Indian Myna Acridotheres tristis). This bird is native to southern Asia from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka. The Myna has been introduced in many other parts of the world

A fine Greater Kudu bull standing on a termite mound in the game reserve surrounding Lake Bogoria, an alkaline lake of Africas Great Rift Valley system

A rarely seen Giant Hog in the Salient of the Aberdare National Park. Kenya

An imature indri (Indri indri) in eastern Madagascar. The Indri are Madagscars largest lemur, standing about a metre high, with a barely visible tail

Antarctica, Paradise Bay. Crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) on an ice-floe

A Giraffe with a bone in its mouth on the edge of the Etosha Pan. This behaviour is not unusual in Etosha

The Grootboom baobab tree in Bushman country near Tsumkwe. This ancient tree has a circumference of over 30 metres and will be more than one thousand years old

An all-black melanistic serval cat at 10, 000 feet on the moorlands of the Aberdare Mountains. This long-legged cat with big ears is normally tawny to russet with black

A magnificent Sable antelope bull with females and young in the Shimba Hills National Park. Sable are arguably the most handsome of all Africas antelopes

A bull elephant in Amboseli National Park. Elephants consume the equivalent of about 5% of their body weight (i.e. up to 300kg) in twenty-four hours

A python kills a Thomsons gazelle by constriction. African pythons can reach a length of over twenty feet. They are not venomous

Two Rothschild giraffes neck in Lake Nakuru National Park. Necking is a contest of strength and dominance undertaken by adult males or young giraffes

A large herd of elephants drink at the Chobe River. Elephants can go several days without water but drink and bathe daily by choice

Migratory blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) crossing the Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Wildebeest migration (Connochaetes taurinus), Masai Mara National Reserve. Kenya

Wollaton Hall Park with deer
Historic image from Nottingham City Museums and Galleries archive

Mississippi River bayou
Alligator in a cypress brake on the lower Mississippi River. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Buffalo in South Dakota
Free-ranging buffalo bull on the slopes of the Black Hills in Custer State Park, South Dakota. Digital photograph

Bear getting honey from a beehive
Bear raiding a beehive in a fallen tree. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century A. B. Frost illustration

Buffalo herd on the American prairie
Herd of bison crossing a river bottom on the Great Plains. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century painting by Hays

A black rhino and calf in the Aberdare Natrional Park

As dusk approaches, Marabou storks roost in large wild fig tree near the Mara River

A fine African bull elephant rubs itself on a termite mound in Tsavo East National Park

Kenya, Msai Mara. A young zebra stands alone, in front of a herd of wildebeest

Blackbird Turdus merula footprints in snow in garden Norfolk winter

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