Soon afterwards Philip Sclater's Catalogue of the Birds of the British Museum brought the number back down to three.

In 1905, he published a two-volume Supplement to the History of the Birds of New Zealand, which brought the work up to date.

The translations of The Acharnians, The Knights, The Birds, and The Frogs were privately printed, and were first brought into general notice by George Cornewall Lewis in the Classical Museum for 1847.

" Arader has brought a similar acumen to the sale of natural history prints, books, and watercolors and is the largest dealer of John James Audubon ’ s highly-prized double-elephant folio prints from The Birds of America.

From 1788 – 1789 he spent rather more than a year as private tutor in a Virginian family, and from 1791 till the close of 1792 he held a similar appointment at Etruria, Staffordshire, with the family of Josiah Wedgwood, employing his spare time in experimental research and in preparing a translation of Buffon's Natural History of Birds, which was published in nine volumes in 1793, which brought him money.

The advent of the compact disc has, however, brought a revival of interest: Marco Polo issued two orchestral discs and one chamber music disc, Hyperion included The Song of Gywn ap Nudd in it's ongoing " Romantic Piano Concerto " series and Lyrita reissued their recording of The Birds of Rhiannon.

She began touring in 1919 with a production of Birds in Paradise, which brought the Hawaiian culture to the mainland, and in 1921 began work with the Stuart Walker Company for which she played roles in Mr. Pim Passes By, The Ruined Lady and Rollo's Wild Oats, among others.

The book follows the path of the soul on a spiritual journey passing through different stages, from this world to other realms which are closer to God, as first described by the 12th Century Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar in his Conference of the Birds.

Gwynne's second appearance on The Phil Silvers Show ( in the episode " For The Birds " in 1956 ) and many other shows led writer-producer Nat Hiken to cast him in the sitcom Car 54, Where Are You?

When ratings soared on The George Gobel Show ( rated in the top ten of 1954-55 ), Paramount promoted Gobel as their new comedy star, casting him as the lead in The Birds and the Bees ( 1956 ), a remake of The Lady Eve ( 1941 ).

* Dit de l ' Alérion aka Dit des quatre oiseaux (" Story of the 4 Birds ") ( before 1349 ) – A symbolic tale of love: the narrator raises four different birds, but each one flees him ; one day the second ( and preferred ) bird comes back to him.

A vignette from Bewick's History of British Birds, mentioned in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( Chapter I ): " The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror "

In The Language of the Birds, a father forces his son to tell him what the birds say: that the father would be the son's servant.

Playing solo and acoustic, Mangum opened the set with what was to be the only post-Aeroplane composition to be performed in public, " Little Birds ", a song about a boy whose body becomes filled with miniature birds that protect him from his murderous father.

Brendel helped choose the selections for Phillip's " Great Pianists of the 20th Century " issue of Kempff recordings, and wrote in the notes that Kempff " achieves things that are beyond him " in his " unsurpassable " recording of Liszt's first Legende, " St. Francis Preaching to the Birds.

Chamberlain later appeared in several popular television miniseries ( earning him a nickname of " King of the Miniseries "), including Centennial ( 1978-79 ), Shōgun ( 1980 ), and The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ) as Father Ralph de Bricassart with Rachel Ward co-starring.

His influence did not stop in the 80's, though ; hardcore punk guitarist Greg Ginn of Black Flag cited Birds of Fire by The Mahavishnu Orchestra which inspired him to record more progressive guitar work and even record instrumental songs.

Other recurring creatures like the Nemean Lion, the Lernaean Hydra, the Erymanthian Boar, and the Stymphalian Birds were taken directly from Hercules ' Twelve Labors, but most weren't presented as trials for him to overcome.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Motown told him to give himself up to the FBI, and the Mynah Birds ' album was shelved.

Meanwhile, Worf requests a leave of absence to visit his brother, Kurn, who controls a small fleet of Birds of Prey, and to urge him to back Gowron, as, once installed as the Leader, Gowron can reinstate their family name.

According to Christopher Tolkien, the author based this picture on a painting by Archibald Thorburn of an immature Golden Eagle, which Christopher found for him in The Birds of the British Isles by Thomas Coward.

Much of what we know about Western US birds and Pacific ornithology-from Bent's " Life Histories of North American Birds " to Murphy's " Oceanic Birds of South America " rests on the work of Rollo Beck and other early ornithologists like him.

( This episode appears, with him as " the Honourable Herbert ", in Louis de Bernières's novel Birds Without Wings.

This passion took him on great expeditions to Papua New Guinea to photograph the Birds of Paradise, Cambodia where a firm and lasting friendship with King Sihanouk was forged, India, Pakistan, the Hindu Kush, Kashmir, Sikkim and the wild yonder, always with his camera and Dr Salim Ali for company.

Among the many reputed guests that Col. Morris had, were Dr. Salim Ali, who visited him during the Birds of Mysore survey and E P Gee, a naturalist.

Hitchcock later complained that Universal Pictures executives insisted on famous stars being cast — after The Birds and Marnie both featured his discovery Tippi Hedren — and that both Andrews and Newman were " recommended " to him rather than being his real choices.

When John James Audubon arrived in Liverpool in July 1826 Traill helped him to find a publisher for his The Birds of America.

In 1989 he was awarded the Queen ’ s Service Medal for services to New Zealand ; in the following year he received the Royal Society of New Zealand ’ s Fleming Award for Environmental Achievement ; in 1992 the honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on him by Massey University for his contribution to science ; in 1994 the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( UK ) awarded him its medal for his “ international contribution to species survival ” and in 1998 the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) elected him to its Global 500 Roll of Honour for his “ outstanding contributions to the protection and improvement of the environment .” Don was named one of “ 100 Great New Zealanders of the 20th Century ” in the 60th anniversary issue of the New Zealand Listener ; in 2001 the New Zealand Government presented him with a certificate in commemoration of the United Nations International Year of the Volunteer 2001, for his “ valued contribution toward assisting developing countries to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development ”; in 2004, BirdLife International awarded him its Conservation Achievement Award for achievements during his 48 year career in the rescue and recovery of endangered birds within New Zealand and elsewhere ; on his retirement from the NZ Department of Conservation in April 2005 the Department granted him Honorary Technical Associate status – the first such recipient ; in 2010 the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of NZ presented him with its “ Old Blue Award ” in recognition of his extraordinary and sustained contributions to conservation in NZ and worldwide ”; and in 2011 he became a “ Fellow of the Ornithological Society of NZ in recognition of his “ lifetime contributions to ornithology and to the work of the Society ”.

Others say that Heracles went to Colchis with the Argonauts, got the Golden Girdle of the Amazons and slew the Stymphalian Birds at that time.

Hunting Birds at Night, 1874, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

* On December 6 2010, a copy of Birds of America was sold at a Sotheby's auction for $ 11. 5 million, a record price for a single printed book.

* Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh, a complete high resolution digitization of all 435 double elephant folios as well as his Ornithological Biography

Birds that call this area home for at least part of the year include: vultures, marabou storks, secretary birds, hornbills, crowned cranes, ostriches, long-crested Eagles, African pygmy-falcons and the lilac-breasted roller, which is the national bird of Kenya.

Birds seen at or very near the Pole include the Snow Bunting, Northern Fulmar and Black-legged Kittiwake, though some bird sightings may be distorted by the tendency of birds to follow ships and expeditions.

Neltje Blanchan, in her book Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted documented that over a million birds were exterminated at one time from a single flock.

The Uniform Resource Locator was created in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) as an outcome of collaboration started at the IETF Living Documents " Birds of a Feather " session in 1992.

Birds are thus equipped to fly at altitudes at which mammals would succumb to hypoxia.

William Turner's Historia Avium (" History of Birds "), published at Cologne in 1544, was an early ornithological work from England.

* June – August 1929: the revue “ Lew Leslie's Black Birds ”, by a troop of a hundred black artists accompanied by the Jazz Plantation Orchestra, is put on at the Moulin Rouge.

* The Arboretum at Flagstaff's Wild Birds of Prey Program

He also edited the first two volumes of Higden's Polychronicon ( 1858 ) and Bishop Pecock's Represser of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy ( 1860 ); Introductory Lecture on Archaeology ( 1865 ); Roman Antiquities found at Rougham ( 1872 ); Catalogue of Birds of Suffolk ( 1884 – 1886 ); Flora of Suffolk ( with W. M. Hind, 1889 ), etc.

: Includes the stories " Pastor Ingqvist's Trip to Orlando ," " Mammoth Concert Tickets ," " Bruno, the Fishing Dog ," " Gospel Birds ," " Meeting Donny Hart at the Bus Stop ," " A Day at the Circus with Mazumbo ," " The Tolleruds ' Korean Baby ," " Sylvester Krueger's Desk ," and " Babe Ruth visits Lake Wobegon.

During one stop at Îles aux Oiseaux ( Islands of the Birds, now the Rochers-aux-Oiseaux federal bird sanctuary, northeast of Brion Island in the Magdalen Islands ), his crew slaughtered around 1000 birds, most of them great auks ( now extinct ).

The premiere of Dead Birds took place at the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University in October 1963.

Some of the exhibits at the Bronx Zoo, such as World of Birds and World of Reptiles, are arranged by taxonomy, while others, such as African Plains and Wild Asia, are arranged geographically.

Birds found here include the Torresian Imperial-pigeon ( estimated at over 40, 000 ), Bridled Terns, Black-naped Terns, Roseate Terns and Little Terns.

Birds is located at ( 38. 836617 ,-87. 668467 ).

He is honored in the downtown with nine cast-bronze sculptures based on paintings from his Birds of America series, at the John James Audubon State Park and Museum.

RSPB Ouse Washes is a nature reserve, managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at Welches Dam.

* Birds observed at Scott Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica