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From: burhans@mizar.usc.edu (Mustang Sally)
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Subject: Re: bird .gif files wanted
Keywords: birdie gif files
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Date: 18 Apr 91 23:05:32 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.004124.3373@omews63.intel.com> johnb@ichips.intel.com writes:
>Are there any gif files in netland showing (preferably outdoor) birds?
>If so, could you please point me to their location?  Thanks -

I'd be interested in any additional information about this as well.

On another group I read, someone posted a list of all the sites that
have any gifs at all. I scanned through for sites with bird gifs and 
found two.

One is aixpsb.rrz.uni-koeln.de  I don't know the ip number for sure
it may be 134,95.80.1  As you may be able to tell it is in denmark
so connection and download is a bit slow, but by god it works.
I'm assuming you know how to ftp in general so I wont go into that--
let me know if you need more help. The directory in question is

pub/gif/animals and the files it has are
  parrot.gif which is a red and blue parrot with its wings flashing
  gulls.gif which is a head shot of two sea gulls

What kind of birds, you might ask--sorry don't have my field guide
and am not good enough to tell. The gulls, which I converted with Wingif
to make bmp files to display as my background in Windows have a grey
back, white head, yellow eyes, yellow bill--fairly think with a dark
tip--the whole tip not just a spot..maybe a fourth of the length
of the bill.

The parrot? I don't know and my field guide wont cover it.

By the way, these are photographs. At the same site in /pub/gif/art
is a file called geese.gif which is japanese print.


The other site I heard about is
schizo.samsung.com which is nearer and faster but seems to
be very busy ftp wise as I couldn't get in. In the
directory pub/gif/0-9 are two files: bird.gif and birds.gif
which I haven't been able to check out.

Are you interested more in photos? drawings? And, if you don't
mind saying--what do you want to do with them? Just curious.
-- 
Jackie Burhans (burhans@usc.edu)          
Data Stylist, USC Student Affairs