Before photography, it was up to illustrators to accurately record plants and animals.
Included in the lengthy introduction was also a complete list of 416 species, Rougeuxexplains.
Rougeux painstakingly arranged each hummingbird in the murmuration to ensure that each one was evenly spaced.
The collage is enhanced by text labels which identify each species on the poster.
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Each of the hummingbirds is from Gould’s original hand-colored lithographs from the 19th century.
It includes all of the hummingbird species that were known at the time.
