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In that case, happy let me tell you about my very favorite birds: shrikes! AKA butcherbirds, these little guys are technically songbirds but they are predatory, and impale their prey on thorns or barbed wire to hold it still for eating. Here are some I've drawn!

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2019-01-05

It's If my. Cockatiels didn't want to murder my phone they'd be in here too :')

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2019-01-06

Sitta europaea, Eurasian nuthatch. Watercolour on paper 1830s by James Hope Stewart (1789-1883)

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2019-01-06

For some offerings from Kiki Smith, Frida Kahlo, and Uemura Shoen. Be sure to put some food out for the birds this winter!

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2019-01-06

a little somethin' for
parrotlets are my favorite, i love 'em

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2019-01-05

The garden scene from Livia’s villa at Prima Porta, just outside of Rome, is undoubtedly one of the most stunning frescoes from the Roman world. Such serenity.
Now on display in

Also apt for

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2019-01-06

Happy 🦉

🎨 Glen Loates, "Black-Crowned Night Heron"

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2019-01-05

Happy - here’s my little to celebrate 🐦🎉

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2019-01-05

National Bird Day 🐦is this Saturday! Discover YOU NEST HERE WITH ME, a soothing bedtime book with baby birds and sleepy children. 👶#NationalBirdDay

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2019-01-04

It still counts if I Started it on National Bird Day and then forgot to finish until now, right? I was reading an article about what the state birds should be and the author was being rude to ptarmigans, which is wrong because they are good and round.

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2018-01-08

Burdos! For even though I’m a day late

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2018-01-07


Gambel's Quail gouache on paper, prep for vector file to be constructed from same

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2018-01-07

For here’s an old exhibition piece - the show in Tokyo was co-sponsored by and aimed to promote a love of the environment through children’s fantasy. I went full-on Edwardian whimsy!

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2018-01-07

It’s who is your favorite bird-based comic character?

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2018-01-06

Happy Meet Monty! He's an Emu from a project me and some friends are working on right now!

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2018-01-06