{"id":2182,"date":"2009-03-24T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2014-06-19T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:14:00","slug":"all-in-a-days-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/all-in-a-days-work\/","title":{"rendered":"All in a Day’s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s interested in birds, even if they might not call themselves a birder.<\/p>\n

Today started out with a question from a dear friend and former colleague at Princeton University’s Index of Christian Art: just what, she wanted to know, is “bird liming” exactly? (If you don’t know, you probably don’t want to know.)<\/p>\n

And on returning from lunch I found an e-mail from the Antiques Roadshow asking for the identification of a bird painted by a famous American bird artist. You’ll have to watch the show to find out yourself, but I was able to pass on the bird’s identity–and, with a little e-sniffing around, the year the painting was likely produced.<\/p>\n

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An Amazon Kingfisher suns in Guyana, closely approximating the posture of a limed bird.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s not quite what I had in mind when I started the “Birds and Art”<\/a> tours here at WINGS (Provence this year, Tuscany and Provence in 2010, Provence and Portugal in 2011…), but it’s terrific fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s interested in birds, even if they might not call themselves a birder. Today started out with a question from a dear friend and former colleague at Princeton University’s Index of Christian Art: just what, she wanted to know, is “bird liming” exactly? (If you don’t know, you probably don’t want to know.) And on … <\/p>\n

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