#18 - Pelican Mothers
The European Middle Ages witnessed the birth of an entirely new bird: the pelican. This is not the "water pelican" we all know but an entirely fantastic beast.
Ulisse Aldrovandi. Ornithologiae. 1599.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/230338#page/13/mode/1up
Sir Thomas Browne. Pseudodoxia, or Vulgar Errors. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudodoxia.shtml.
Topsell, Edward. The Fowles of Heaven: Or History of Birdes. University of Texas, 1972.