Seona Anderson 17/01/2024 Seona Anderson 17/01/2024

PEACOCK

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PEACOCK: let frantic Talbot triumph for a while, and like a peacock sweep along his tail. The magnificent Peacock is stunning but also a symbol of vanity and pride.

Seona Anderson 13/01/2024 Seona Anderson 13/01/2024

SPARROW

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SPARROW: There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Perhaps there is a warning for us all about the decline of a species which used to be a byword for abundance…

Seona Anderson 31/12/2023 Seona Anderson 31/12/2023

SWANS

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SWAN: like Juno’s swans still we went coupled and inseparable. Read more about Swans, their dying song and their symbolic significance.

Seona Anderson 30/12/2023 Seona Anderson 30/12/2023

Geese

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, GEESE: Souls of geese that bear the shapes of men. Read more about the domesticated Goose and its role in Shakespeare

Seona Anderson 29/12/2023 Seona Anderson 29/12/2023

Eagle

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, EAGLE: A lover’s eye will gaze an eagle blind. Find out more about this majestic bird and its history.

Seona Anderson 28/12/2023 Seona Anderson 28/12/2023

BLACKBIRD

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, BLACKBIRD/Black Ouzel: the ouzel cock so black of hue, with orange-tawny bill. Read more about this widespread, tuneful bird.

Seona Anderson 27/12/2023 Seona Anderson 27/12/2023

CHICKEN

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CHICKEN: an empty eagle were set to guard the chicken from a hungry kite. Read more about one of the most important domesticated birds in the world.

Seona Anderson 26/12/2023 Seona Anderson 26/12/2023

TURTLE DOVE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, TURTLE DOVES: as true as steel, as plantage to the moon, as sun to day, as turtle to her mate. The iconic Turtle Dove is associated with loyal love but it declining rapidly.

Seona Anderson 25/12/2023 Seona Anderson 25/12/2023

PARTRIDGE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PARTRIDGE: Who finds the partridge in the puttock’s nest but may imagine how the bird was dead. Find out more about the increasingly rare Grey Partridge.

Seona Anderson 24/12/2023 Seona Anderson 24/12/2023

TURKEY

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, TURKEY: why here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. Read more about this bird of the Americas which is integral to Christmas for many.

Seona Anderson 05/12/2023 Seona Anderson 05/12/2023

ROBIN

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ROBIN: to relish a love song like a robin redbreast.

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Seona Anderson 23/11/2023 Seona Anderson 23/11/2023

Pelican

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PELICAN: And, like the kind life-rend’ring Pelican, repast them with my blood. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 08/11/2023 Seona Anderson 08/11/2023

MALLARD

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, MALLARD: Antony, claps on his sea-wing and, like a doting mallard, leaving the fight in height, flies after her.

Seona Anderson 03/11/2023 Seona Anderson 03/11/2023

SWANS

Ben Jonson famously called Shakespeare the “sweet swan of Avon” in his elegy at the front of the First Folio.