Another belated happy birthday to Alexander Wilson, aka “the father of American #ornithology,” born #OTD (Scotland 6 July 1766 – USA 23 August 1813)
Vol.1, Pl.1: “Blue Jay; Yellow-Bird or Goldfinch; Baltimore Bird”
from Wilson’s _American Ornithology_, 9 vols., Philadelphia, 1808-1814.
#BirdsInArt
