Detail of bird beaks


Plate 281, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards' The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 2 (1760). Annotated 'Four curious beaks of birds but little known'.


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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