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Johann Baptist von Spix portrait
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Johann Baptist von Spix portrait (Cyanopsitta spixii)

You may will ask your self what has a human portrait to do in this gallery?The man depicted here is the biologist Johann Baptist von Spix holding the first ever collected juvenile Spix macaw , a species discovered by him in Brazil in 1819 and has been named after him. This stuffed bird still exists in the Bavarian Zoological society in Munich. Spix has been also the first director of the Bavarian zoological society
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Date taken
12.09.2020
Scientific name
Cyanopsitta spixii
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Acrylics on paper
delia todd
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It's such a shame there are none of those macaws in the wild any more, isn't it Paschalis.

You've produced a beautiful paining of this young Her Spix my friend. Many thanks for the information about him.
 
Kits
How interesting and what a wonderful piece of art work.
 
volker sthamer
Fantastic image Spiz, also your painting should be exhibited in the Bavarian Zoological Society! Many thanks for sharing!
 

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