Some Editions about Migrants
Galería Isabel Hurley•Sep 20, 2024 — Nov 02, 2024
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Some years ago, talking to a well-known ornithologist about the Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus) — now known as the Golden or European Oriole although I refuse to change the name because I consider myself a dilettante— he explained that this yellow bird, fetishized in my artist’s imagination, is one of the last to arrive and the first to depart of the groups of migrating birds.
Indeed the SEO’s (Spanish Ornithological Society) Guide to Spanish Birds, describing the species movements, states:
[…] this is a summer visitor that winters in Subsaharian Africa. The first sightings are made in mid-April with a swift occupation of territories at the end of the month and beginning of May. The male birds arrive 7-10 days before the females and specimens in transit to northern Europe can be observed until the end of May. The autumn migration begins at the beginning of August but the bulk of these take place at the end of the month with occasional...More
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Some Editions about Migrants
Galería Isabel Hurley•Sep 20, 2024 — Nov 02, 2024
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Some years ago, talking to a well-known ornithologist about the Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus) — now known as the Golden or European Oriole although I refuse to change the name because I consider myself a dilettante— he explained that this yellow bird, fetishized in my artist’s imagination, is one of the last to arrive and the first to depart of the groups of migrating birds.
Indeed the SEO’s (Spanish Ornithological Society) Guide to Spanish Birds, describing the species movements, states:
[…] this is a summer visitor that winters in Subsaharian Africa. The first sightings are made in mid-April with a swift occupation of territories at the end of the month and beginning of May. The male birds arrive 7-10 days before the females and specimens in transit to northern Europe can be observed until the end of May. The autumn migration begins at the beginning of August but the bulk of these take place at the end of the month with occasional...More
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