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#InternationalVultureAwarenessDay:

Ustād Manṣūr (India, active 1590-1624)

Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture, c. 1615–20

Mughal, Jahāngīr Studio

folio from the Shah Jahan Album

ink, opaque watercolor, & gold on paper

39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 55.121.10.12 verso: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451260

Ustād Manṣūr (India, Mughal period, fl. ca. 1590–1624), "Pigeons around a Dovecote"

“A Chameleon”, Ustad Mansur, 1612.

#art #ustad mansur #17th century

DinApril Day 13: A Quaternary dinosaur (that your father saw).

Welcome to DinApril 2026, where instead of recycling my list from last year, I made my father come up with the dinosaurs! Our thirteenth day features a Quaternary dinosaur: Raphus cucullatus! In a scene from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that didn't make it into the movie, the Dodo (who's received a redesign to look more like the actual animal) gives Alice a thimble as her prize for the Caucus race. Alice is less than impressed.

This technically fulfills tomorrow's prompt of a dinosaur wearing a hat, but I'm going to use another species for that.

Coloration inspired by the actual animal, specifically from a 1625 painting of it by Ustad Mansur.