Reposted by Kevin Wee 黃克文
Wikipedia describes birds in lots of different ways:
"bright scarlet head, throat, and upperparts"
"wings that are grey-black grading into green or blue"
"upperparts are a dull olive-green"
I gathered 10,151 of these descriptions and used them to make this visualization
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Of A Feather. Data Art For Bird Nerds.
10,151 bird species visualized in a single composition, positioned radially by wing length. This hyper-detailed artwork combines morphological data from AVONET with colors extracted from Wikipedia des...
