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#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.
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detail of the ostrich from the Diakonikon-Baptistery mosaic, walking in side profile with leash around neck, depicted with two toes on each foot

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 - Wikimedia Commons

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#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
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🆔 Common Ostrich (Struthio camelus) chicks
#WomenArtists
oil painting in landscape orientation of two hatching ostrich eggs, one on left with chick peeking out of a hole in the shell, one on right with chick's head and part of body emerged from shell, with bits of eggshell strewn about

'Coming Out' of a Cape Beauty | Art UK

'Coming Out' of a Cape Beauty by Marianne North (1830–1890), c.1882, from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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