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Mule deer buck in Wyoming | D. Robert Franz Photography
Mule deer buck in Wyoming | Yellowstone Nature Photography by D. Robert Franz
Surreal seductions: Birds of paradise strut their stuff
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: stories behind classic portraits
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: stories behind classic portraits | Wildlife | The Guardian
Art Print: Astrapia Nigra - Gorget Paradise-Bird by John Gould : 18x12in
size: 18x12in Art Print: Astrapia Nigra - Gorget Paradise-Bird by John Gould : John Gould (1804 - 1881) was an English ornithologist whose lithographs of finches were not only works of exceptional beauty and detail, but also were crucial to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. He started studying birds and taxidermy while assisting his father, a gardener, in the Royal Gardens of Windsor and was later hired by the Zoological Society of London to oversee their ornithological collecti