 No.1 Hoopoe. British Library, Harley 3244 (England, 13th-cent.), folio 57r. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.  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  No.2 Eagle-owl. British Library, Harley 3244 (England, 13th-cent.), folio 54v. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Please click on image to go to source.  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.  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.  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.  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!  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  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  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. Answers 1. Hoopoe 2. Eagle Owl 3. Mallard Duck 4. Goldfinch 5. Jay 6. Blue Tit  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  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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