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Today’s bird of the week is a little different. Technically it’s a Cockatoo. But not just any Cockatoo, it’s the cockatoo featured in the painting, An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (1768), by Joseph Wright of Derby. The painting portrays an old experiment where a bird was placed in a vacuum flask, from which theContinue reading “Bird 19 – Sulphur-crested Cockatoo”