The species is one of about 140 members worldwide of the Rallidae, the bird family ... The African rail is unusual in this regard: the species holotype is a 1773 watercolour painting by Georg ...

he made "Bird" his first major contemporary acquisition. The DIA plans to exhibit the work this month in its African-American art gallery—the start of a full-court press, if you will ...

It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa. Some cryptozoologists – people who look for legendary animals like the Loch Ness Monster – have suggested the painting might depict ...

South Africa’s beleaguered blue swallow has been reclassified from ... and private landowners to protect these special birds, given that their preferred habitat overlaps with land of high ...

Half-human, half-bird However, the image does not simply depict an African rail, and this hints at a spiritual dimension to the purpose of the painting. Often San rock art images take the form of ...