EditorialTringa canutus, Print, The red knot (Calidris canutus) (just knot in English-speaking Europe) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calid...
EditorialTringa canutus, Print, The red knot (Calidris canutus) (just knot in English-speaking Europe) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calid...
EditorialTringa canutus, Print, The red knot (Calidris canutus) (just knot in English-speaking Europe) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calid...
EditorialTringa canutus, Print, The red knot (Calidris canutus) (just knot in English-speaking Europe) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calid...
EditorialThe sandpipers on their nest. Anvar-i Suhayli. India, 1610-1611. The sandpipers on their nest on the water while the simurgh leads the army of birds to their rescue. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Anvar-i Suhayli, a versi...
EditorialThe sandpipers on their nest on the water while the ‘simurgh’ leads the army of birds to their rescue. A.H. 1019 (A.D. 1610). ANWáR E SUHAILI, the Fables of Pilpay. Illustration from the Fables of Pilpay. Source: Add. 18579 f.104. Language: Persian.
EditorialThe simurgh leading an army of birds, 1610. The sandpipers sit on their nest in the water while the simurgh leads the birds to their rescue. The simurgh is a mythical creature related to the roc and the phoenix. It lives for up to 2000 years and may ev...