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12/4/2015

From Hoopoe to Blue Tit

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No.1 Hoopoe. British Library, Harley 3244 (England, 13th-cent.), folio 57r. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.
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Hoopoe. "Botbotik" by Dûrzan cîrano - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Botbotik.jpg#/media/File:Botbotik.jpg
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No.2 Eagle-owl. British Library, Harley 3244 (England, 13th-cent.), folio 54v. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.
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No.3 Mallard duck. British Library, Royal 6 E.vi (London c.1360-c.1375), folio 128r. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.
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No.4 Goldfinch (a pair). British Library, Royal 6 E.vi (London, c.1360-c.1375), folio 167v. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.
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No.5 Jay. British Library, Royal 19 B xv (London or East Anglia, 1300-1325), folio 37v. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.
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No.6 Blue Tit. British Library, Royal 3 D vi (London, 1283-1300), folio 116r. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.

The Anglo-Saxon Monk is pleased to announce that at least someone knows their medieval birds...

Well, it was a bit painful, blessed readers, but in the end we found someone who worked out the identity of the six medieval birds from my previous post. 

So a hearty congratulations to @Mwncïod. The Lord is delighted that someone out there knows her/his avian creation.  And Latin names to boot.  Impressive! 

Well done to the others who had a go.  God is inordinately fond of triers, I'm led to believe... or is it beetles?  As for you non-starters, well the least said the better!

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Eurasian Eagle Owl. By Kamil. Corrections: Piotr_J (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Mallard. By Rror (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Goldfinch. By milo bostock from gt yarmouth, norfolk (GOLD FINCH Uploaded by snowmanradio) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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1. Hoopoe 
2. Eagle Owl 
3. Mallard Duck 
4. Goldfinch 
5. Jay 
6. Blue Tit
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Jay (Eurasian): the jay sometimes raises his crest, as in the medieval image. AlastairG [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Blue Tit. By Robert Dewar (Flickr: Blue Tit) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Hope you all enjoyed the Anglo-Saxon Monk's little foray into ornithology.  Any disputes over the birds' identities will be treated with the upmost monastic patience... so please do leave your comments below. 

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Doreen link
12/4/2015 10:06:56 am

Well, one out of six isn't to bad. ;P

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Chris *The Anglo-Saxon Monk
12/4/2015 10:35:07 am

Doreen, you laid the foundation... standing on the shoulders of giants, and all that :-)

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