Source: Ornithologia Neerlandica: de vogels van Nederland / Eduard Daniel van Oort, Gerrit Anton Brouwer, geïllustreerd door Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek. ‘s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1922-1935. Available online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The Ornithologia Neerlandica – De Vogels van Nederland – is a work of five volumes. It was written by Prof. E.D. van Oort (1876-1933) and illustrated by […]
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Source: Het vogeljaar. Nederlandsche vogels in hun leven geschetst / Jac. P. Thijsse, Amsterdam: W. Versluys, 1913, 2e dr. The renowned bird and nature photographer Alphonse Burdet, a good friend of Thijsse, took this photo of a stone curlew near Bloemendaal that was included in the second edition of Het Vogeljaar (‘Birds throughout the year’).
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The cuckoo, in the second volume of Onze vogels in huis en tuin / Johannes Gerardus Keulemans. Leiden: P.W.M. Trap, 1869-1876. See the digital version at Biodiversity Heritage Library. In addition to native bird species, the three-volume work Onze vogels in huis en tuin (‘Our birds of the home and garden’), written and illustrated by J.G.
Source: De vogels van Nederland / Hermann Schlegel. The dune habitat with illustrations of bird species such as the stone curlew, crested lark and tawny pipit that are now extremely rare in the Netherlands. (photos in the Schlegel brochure) From: De vogels van Nederland / H Schlegel, 2e herz. dr in Natuurlijke historie van Nederland,
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De Eijeren zyn zoo goed als die der Kievit, en de GRUTTO’S zelf zyn eene lekkerny. In English: ‘The eggs are as delicious as those of the lapwing and the godwit itself is a delicacy.’ From: Nederlandsche vogelen volgens hunne huishouding, aert en eigenschappen beschreeven / Cornelis Nozeman 1720-1786, Christiaan Sepp ca. 1720-1775, en anderen.
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Home Exhibitions Art on Wageningen Campus John Bergmans, garden architect and botanist What RAF-pilots saw during the liberation About us Contact Home Exhibitions Art on Wageningen Campus John Bergmans, garden architect and botanist What RAF-pilots saw during the liberation About us Contact Shifting Baseline Syndrome A phenomenon that has been extensively researched in recent years
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The photo displays two men pollinating an apple tree, probably in an orchard near Sprenger’s house on the Haarweg in Wageningen. The text with the photo states: Lab for horticultural plant cultivation, May 1935. The photo album belonged to the former Sprenger Institute, Haagsteeg 6, where later the Horticultural Plant Cultivation department was located. The
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Painting of the apple variety Ruby by Albrecht Marinus Sprenger. Dated between 1920 and 1958. Oil on linen. The painting is also included in the book Appeltjes van Oranje uit 2002: LTO-Nederland, fruitteelt en de kunst, with photographs and still lifes of apples. This book also includes the work of famous painters like Jan Voerman
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