#willow oak

[druidinvirginia]

willow oak

[blondebrainpowered]

Ivory-billed woodpecker perched on a willow oak. 1720s

Artist: Mark Catesby

[lostintheuniverseslies]

A Quiet Little Seedling Plants

Chapter One (listed as mentioned)

Spider Plant

Dwarf Umbrella Tree

Alpine Sea Holly

Violet

Peony

Saguaro

Lilac

Stromanthe Triostar

Syngonium Strawberry

ZZ Plant

Heartleaf Philodendron

Spiderworts

Willow Oak

Next: Chapter 2 Plants

[uwmspeccoll]

A Feathursday of Extinction

English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749) traveled and collected specimens in the southern American colonies and the Caribbean from 1712-1719 and then again from 1722-1726. His explorations culminated in his massive Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands published between 1729 and 1747. The plates shown here come from our 1974 large folio-sized facsimile reproduced from a copy of the 3rd edition at the Boston Athenaeum, consisting of 50 color plates and a descriptive catalogue, limited to an edition of 500 boxed sets.

Today we are showing plates of three birds observed and described by Catesby that are now extinct:

1.) Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), extinct by 1914, depicted in a Red Oak (Quercus rubra). 2.) Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), extinct in the U.S. by 1944, depicted in a Willow Oak (Quercus phellos) . 3.) Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), extinct by 1939, depicted in a Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum).

Hunting and habitat loss were contributing factors in their extinction, although it remains unclear what exactly led to the Carolina Parakeet’s rapid decline.

Due to restricted funding, Catesby etched his own plates and even hand colored the first of the two volumes. Our facsimile edition was published in 1974 by The Beehive Press in Savannah, Georgia, and was designed and printed by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, with the plates printed by The Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut 

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[angelnumber130]

bubbly!

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I had a great day "hanging out" and helping out a good friend I went to forestry school with; who is now a tree climber.

[fedorasaurus]

What kinda OTP...

[angelnumber130]

this took forever and a day but-! here’s the greatest sibling duo ever, in the cheesiest poses ever ✌️