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ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: Today is Both Audubon Day and International Flamingo Day, So Here Is Audubon’s Flamingo!

Since both Audubon Day and International Flamingo Day are celebrated annually on the 26th of April, what better work to spotlight today than John J. Audubon’s famous flamingo print from his magnum opus, The Birds of America… On the 7th of May, 1832, while sailing from Indian Key, one of…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Sea Turtle Day: Warhol’s sea turtle movie promo art

June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day! Check out Andy Warhol’s 1985 sea turtle art and find out what movie it was made for.

ON THIS DAY: The death of the last known Carolina Parakeet and Audubon’s images of a now-extinct species

It was on this day (21 February) in 1918 that the last known Carolina Parakeet, Incas, died at the Cincinnati Zoo – tragically, in the same cage the last known Passenger Pigeon, Martha, had died only four years earlier. (Even worse, unlike Martha, whose body was sent to the Smithsonian…