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These are so fun to make

i implore you all to look at the waterlogged project on inaturalist. check this shit out

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

about your fawkes the phoenixes post, i always thought fawkes was based on a secretary bird. could you draw fawkes as one? that'd be so cool

ayy you mean this post ?? and yeah actually secretary birds are kind of the body type i imagine for em anyway ! maybe

honestly I think the #1 issue I see when people try to draw birds is the mouths. a lot of people and designs in cartoons will end the beak at the featherline like this:

but the featherline isn’t where most birds’ lips actually end, it’s usually a bit past that 

there’s some exceptions (waterfowl like ducks and geese for example) but in general most birds have lips that end somewhere within the feathers between the eye and beak

two prints. chickens made last month and an osprey made back in March.

i know they're really messy but like whatever

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i love vultures they're like coworkers to me

The Jellybean Juice lore continues!

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Great eared nightjar

Once again randomly remembered this story about a couple who had a small parrot - pretty sure it was a budgie - who didn't talk but learned to communicate with people in its own way. Once it figured out that people always turn to check their phones when the notification sound comes on, it started making the text message notification sound to request human attention. The parrot also liked to follow people to the door whenever guests were leaving, and would use its wings to pantomime the motions of a person putting their coat on. A very clever, charming bird.

And every once in a while it just randomly hated some people. Not for any real reason, or even reason to suspect bad vibes, but by deciding "fuck this person in particular" for shits and giggles alone. And one time when the owners had invited a new friend to their home, the bird decided that it Did Not Like Her.

So in the middle of polite conversation, the bird - who was free to roam around the apartment at the time - hopped onto the living room coffee table, right in front of the unwanted guest. And in that moment, the owners put two and two together and understood that whatever mischief the bird had decided to do, it was now too late to stop it.

But instead of unleashing the absolute hell that even the tiniest displeased parrot could be capable of, the little budgie made its little "may I have your attention please" cell phone notification sound, and once the guest was focused on the bird, looked at her dead in the eye while doing the putting-my-coat-on wing motion.

The guest did not recognise the pantomime for what it was, but she was nonetheless delighted that the parrot would do a little wing-roll dance for her. And the host couple were at first too stunned and then too polite to tell her how impressive that gesture truly was. Their bird had shown both remarkable restraint and cleverness by using its entire vocabulary of human communication just to say

"I have an important announcement: I think you should leave."

looks exactly the same as when my wife brings me a little treat home from the store

Southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus)

Photo by NOAA

No better feeling in the world than when your pet comes to hang out with you 💙

Yet another scientific article adding to the slowly growing mountain of evidence that suggests we might be able to save the world through bird-watching.

me: hmmm i wonder which shape has two equal sides and angles…

the magnificent isosceles triangle:

Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece!

I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love.

My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now

Isn’t it wonderful?!

Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

{Barn Owls in The Oak} by {Mike Rae}