{"id":315,"date":"2013-04-22T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?p=315"},"modified":"2013-04-22T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:53:32","slug":"birds-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/birds-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-316\" alt=\"bird-cover\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-cover-191x300.png\" width=\"96\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-title.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-317\" alt=\"bird-title\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-title-300x236.png\" width=\"189\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-title-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-title-380x300.png 380w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-title.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-turkey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-318\" alt=\"bird-turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/04\/bird-turkey-300x235.png\" width=\"188\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spring is finally in the air along with some returning feathered friends. In honour of our avian associates I thought I&#8217;d share part of a chapbook on birds. While there are <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-a&amp;find_code=WSU&amp;request=Chapbooks++Specimens.&amp;request_op=AND&amp;find_code=WSU&amp;request=birds\">plenty of chapbooks in the collection on birds<\/a>, I picked <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=catalogue&amp;request=000901535\">Juvenile History of Birds<\/a> because of a reference to Canada in the first entry. It describes the turkey&#8217;s homeland of Canada as &#8220;covered with snow above three parts of the year.&#8221; I&#8217;m assuming that&#8217;s three parts out of four, which it certainly feels like sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>This also gives me an opportunity to mention another part of McGill University&#8217;s Rare Books and Special Collections &#8211; the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-using\/branches\/rarebooks\/special-collections\/blacker\">Blacker-Wood Collection of Zoology and Ornithology<\/a>. For example, it houses a book with pictures of birds and people made entirely of feathers from 1618! You can see the digitized version <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/featherbook\/\">here<\/a>. There are also several collections on different aspects of Canadiana such as Canadian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-using\/branches\/rarebooks\/special-collections\/canadian-hist\">history<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-using\/branches\/rarebooks\/special-collections\/canadian-lit\">literature<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-using\/branches\/rarebooks\/special-collections\/bland\">architecture<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-using\/branches\/rarebooks\/special-collections\/canadian-prints\">prints<\/a>, and even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-using\/branches\/rarebooks\/special-collections\/olympic\">Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Spring is finally in the air along with some returning feathered friends. In honour of our avian associates I thought I&#8217;d share part of a chapbook on birds. While there are plenty of chapbooks in the collection on birds, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/birds-of-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}