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in the 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.
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