#BookRecommendation for #WorldOstrichDay :
Ostrich [Animal series] (2013)
https://amzn.to/4aKCPCN via #AmazonAssociates

#WorldOstrichDay :
#Ostrich in the #Byzantine Diakonikon-Baptistery Mosaic, Mount Nebo, Jordan, 530 CE.
Look how it has the right # of toes - it's the only bird in the world with two toes on each foot!
There was an ostrich subspecies native to the Levant & Arabian Peninsula that persisted into mid-20th c.: Struthio camelus syriacus.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_the_6th_century_AD_mosaic_in_the_Diakonikon_Baptistry_of_the_Moses_Memorial_Church_depicting_a_hunting_and_herding_scene_interspersed_with_various_animals,_Mount_Nebo,_Jordan_(26803945218).jpg

#WorldOstrichDay :
Marianne North (British, 1830-90)
'Coming Out' of a Cape Beauty
South Africa, c.1882
Oil on board, H 25.4 x W 35.4 cm
Marianne North Gallery @ Kew Gardens MN451
https://www.kew.org/mng/gallery/451.html
via ArtUK
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/coming-out-of-a-cape-beauty-87776
Common Ostrich (Struthio camelus) chicks
#WomenArtists

#BookRecommendation for #WorldOstrichDay:
Raphael's Ostrich by Una Roman D’Elia (2016)
https://amzn.to/3JBxWAs via #Amazon
(which, despite the name, doesn't only focus on #Renaissance ostriches but also offers a broad survey of #ostrich iconography going back to ancient Egypt)

Today is also #WorldOstrichDay! Here is #Picasso's #ostrich:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), The Ostrich (L'Autruche), Plate XVI from Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de Buffon (Histoire naturelle), 1936, published 1942. MoMA collection: https://moma.org/collection/works/29420