My collection of open-book birds 2019 /2022/2023/2024

Maybe I'm being stupid here, but could someone explain the title term 'open-book birds' for me?
I've asked google and can't find it being used in any wildlife-classification or bird-spotting context, only artwork with birds and open books together!

George wrote:

Maybe I'm being stupid here, but could someone explain the title term 'open-book birds' for me?
I've asked google and can't find it being used in any wildlife-classification or bird-spotting context, only artwork with birds and open books together!

George you are certainly not stupid!
The concept comes from me
I have been collecting animals for 26 years, my collection is growing from year to year.
I'm on STS forum
for quite a long time now the name of the trent has come from myself.
I'll explain now I display my collection on shelves that I photograph and classify; I can display, search, classify permanently on my computer.
it's my hobby.
Sometimes I decide to do a compilation of my inventory and I have made a personal photo book of my bird collection on a given date.
Subsequently I thought to share it, I talk about my collection of birds on STS and to share it with the members of the forum.
Nothing pretentious and nothing scientific just a hobby.
So I displayed my collection, as if I were opening the pages of my book and flipping through it to share it with you, that's all;
George I don't speak English at all , but I find this title interesting and quite adequate I think!

Ahhh, that makes perfect sense! Thank you for explaining, I'll think of this topic as a book to open and flick through each time you update it, now

All are must haves in my opinion. Big congrats my friend

Actually, I think the Open-Book Birds is a very good name choice. It works also like an inventory of all amazing bird figures Jean-Luc is sharing with us through all these years.
It is a good idea to give names to this kind of collections, they give a certain identity to them. Isn't it somehwat like Harecroft Horses?
Also, Jean's concept almost works like a three-dimensional book about birds with figures instead of pictures. Open-Book represents perfectly the act of sharing the collection with us and when a book is open, it is like it is flying spreading the knowledge trhough the STS sky.
Even if there isn't an artistic point in my collection, I failed miserably when I called it Roger's collection of foxes, it is meaningless.

Pardofelis wrote:

There is a hoopoe and a cockatoo in the tree indeed, tough the cockatoo is salmon-crested and not yellow (sulphur) crested :)

You're really good spotting all details, I was really suggesting these as stars to put on the top of the tree but I am not sure I had noticed them.

Yes, it's definitely great to give these threads a personalised concept, and it helped me a lot as a new forum member, learning who's who and what they each collect from these recogniseable thread titles - it can be hard getting to know so many new people all at once, and it would definitely be so much more difficult if everybody just named their threads with something like 'My collection'!

The 'Harecroft Horses' thing is a little bit different - in model horse showing you're strongly encouraged to have a prefix, right from the beginning, so all your models are named with a unique word or abbreviation at the start, which identify your horse as yours. If just plain 'Misty' wins, whose Misty is that? Is it a Breyer Misty, or some other model the person's just picked the name Misty for? What if there's two Misties in the class? Harecroft Misty leaves no doubt which model's won a prize or a placing.
And you'll see a lot of us take the prefix on outside of showing - it can be used as a fictional range/farm/stableyard when we make little buildings or landscapes for photoshoots, like an imagined world for them to 'live' in. It can be the name for a website or blog, so people get to know your collection. And it can be used as a studio name when painting or selling customs. It becomes an identity, which tells people who owns or painted any horse, without having to use full real names in public online.

Indeed!

Thank you for joining my concept!
Here are my new birds for the end of year celebrations.  

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Schleich - Sciences & Nature - Papo - Mojö

Fabulous birds here :) I like especially the great horned owl :)

Nice bird additions :)

Which species is the black and white one please? (second from left)?

An Australian magpie (Gymnorrhina tibicen) by Science & Nature :-)

Compare it with alive ones at Plzen zoo:

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thanks a lot my friends
yes that's right Pardofelis, thanks for the picture .
I already have that of Australian yowie!

Thank you both Pardo and Jean-Luc!

Here are some comparative images while waiting for me to update some shelves.

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I love these little paserines and these two eagles are very impressive!.. I don't see any pinson by this winter..

Caracal wrote:

I love these little paserines and these two eagles are very impressive!.. I don't see any pinson by this winter..

Thank you
At home I haven't seen any bullfinch lately and there is a lot of sparrows missing, which are deserting our countryside.
I live in town and even on the feeder there are not many people who crowd there, there are mostly sparrows and tits

The robin from Papo is lovely.

Pardofelis wrote:

An Australian magpie (Gymnorrhina tibicen) by Science & Nature :-)

Compare it with alive ones at Plzen zoo:

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Pardofelis, you was in ZOO Plzeň in person? This is the nearest ZOO from my home but I never saw this species here...

Yes, otherwise I would have been unable to take the photo! My visit was in 2013 and the magpies were in the Australian section, sharing a closed aviary with Australasian shelduck. Plzen zoo have maybe more terrestrial animals than all the other European zoos combined together so is not a surprise that they have any species you can think about! According too Zootierliste the species is still present at Plzen zoo as 1 male and 1 female (the same couple than in my photo), being last revised in 2020.

Pardofelis wrote:

Yes, otherwise I would have been unable to take the photo! My visit was in 2013 and the magpies were in the Australian section, sharing a closed aviary with Australasian shelduck. Plzen zoo have maybe more terrestrial animals than all the other European zoos combined together so is not a surprise that they have any species you can think about! According too Zootierliste the species is still present at Plzen zoo as 1 male and 1 female (the same couple than in my photo), being last revised in 2020.

Thanks for the info, we will check with my children in summer for sure :)

Pardofelis wrote:

Yes, otherwise I would have been unable to take the photo! My visit was in 2013 and the magpies were in the Australian section, sharing a closed aviary with Australasian shelduck. Plzen zoo have maybe more terrestrial animals than all the other European zoos combined together so is not a surprise that they have any species you can think about! According too Zootierliste the species is still present at Plzen zoo as 1 male and 1 female (the same couple than in my photo), being last revised in 2020.

If you will visit the Zoo of Dresden, please let me know :)

jarda wrote:

Pardofelis wrote:

Yes, otherwise I would have been unable to take the photo! My visit was in 2013 and the magpies were in the Australian section, sharing a closed aviary with Australasian shelduck. Plzen zoo have maybe more terrestrial animals than all the other European zoos combined together so is not a surprise that they have any species you can think about! According too Zootierliste the species is still present at Plzen zoo as 1 male and 1 female (the same couple than in my photo), being last revised in 2020.

Thanks for the info, we will check with my children in summer for sure :)

Your hometown zoo is not so much for away from my hometown. I plan also to visit some zoos in the Czech Republic. Last time it was Liberec, Prague and Decin. But Pilsen and Usti , Teplice and more are on my target.

Thank you for these zoo images of real birds I saw images of the australian shelduck pretty very colorful species.