Registrar: Amanda Bielskas
Weather: Partly cloudy and a little rainy temperature was warm (for February) but cooled throughout the day.
Participants: 9
Bird species: 20+
Our group of 9 birders met promptly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 10:30am for a tour of some of the birds that can be found inhabiting the museum. We started in Ancient Greece, worked our way over to the Ancient Egyptian wing where there were numerous falcons, hawks and vultures, many herons and even the sacred ibis. After Egypt we toured some Byzantine and early Roman art where we saw birds including doves which were depicted in many religious works and also passed several tapestries in the Medieval section that featured falcons and partridges. We then made some stops in the American Wing where we saw more eagles and some aquatic birds including swans and ducks. We did a slight detour and managed to find the likely extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the visible storage section. We continued onto the Native American galleries and admired the imagery of Thunderbirds and Ravens. The Tour continued in some of the European Painting Galleries where we were able to view some parrots and finches in some classic works. The tour concluded with the art deco gallery from a Paris apartment with beautiful wall sized oil paintings featuring herons and peacocks. This was an amazing informative tour full of beautiful works of art in a vast variety of mediums. Many thanks to Kevin for guiding us through thousands of years of artworks and over 20 species of birds real and imagined.
Species Lists
Birds
Chickens/Roosters
Coots
Cranes
Doves
Ducks
Eagles
Falcons
Flycatcher
Geese
Goldfinches
Griffins
Hawks
Herons
Hoopoe
Magpie
Ostrich
Owls
Parrots
Partridges
Peafowl/Pheasants
Pelicans
Pigeons
Ravens
Sacred Ibis
Sirens
Swallows
Swans
Thunderbird
Vultures
