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Topic Categories: AMNH Subway Art • My Pictures • NYC Through My Eye • NYC life • Photography and cameras
Posted on: February 18, 2008 7:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: birds, brown kiwi, Apteryx mantelli, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
Brown Kiwi, Apteryx mantelli,
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
Read more about the AMNH tile artworks and see the AMNH tile artworks photographic archives -- with all the animals identified.
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Comments
It's amazing to think these animals are all green and squishy inside.
Posted by: Bob O'H | February 19, 2008 12:59 AM
They can also fly. But only when nobody is looking.
Posted by: YoungFrankie | February 19, 2008 3:35 PM