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Today's Throwback Thursday picture.
An ostrich.
📸 6 March 2016. Domaine Enchanteur. Notre-Dame-du-Mflagqcrmel, Québec
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La photo jeudi rétro d'aujourd'hui.
Une autruche.
📸 6 mars 2016. Domaine Enchanteur. Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Québec
#Ostrich #Autruche #ThrowbackThursday #JeudiRétro #DomainEnchanteur #NotreDameDuMontCarmel
#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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Enameled gold mounted baroque pearl jewel in form of #ostrich set with diamonds & rubies
Flemish, 16th c.
55 x 32 mm
Collection of Anna Maria de'Medici (#2556), Treasury of the Grand Dukes, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
Anna Maria de'Medici had a passion for collecting such baroque pearl curios, each fashioned into different figures that could be animal or human, real or fantastical.
“Oi, who der you think you're a taking a photo of?” #Photography #PhotographyOnMastodon #Wildlife #ornithology #Ostrich
(Edited for typo)