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Hey I'm Payne! I'm a trans masc hobby artist and ornithology enthusiast. This Twitter is mostly for art, with occasional personal updates. Cheers!

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2019-06-29

You may have heard of toxic frogs or toxic fish, but did you know there are toxic birds? For today's we're highlighting the hooded pitohui, a bird so toxic that just handling one causes numbness.

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2019-06-29

Our ms on auk landings is out https://t.co/MnJ6eEqcd2! It brings together airflow modelling round by & animals, probabilistic models from Andy Neate & data from 's .

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2019-06-18

Amber majored in Ornithology just so she could live with a bunch of species of birds.

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2019-05-08

One of eight Lears in our new catalogue, this watercolour of a King Vulture was drawn from life at the Surrey Zoological Gardens in April 1832. The Gardens were set up by Edward Cross at Walworth Manor in Kennington, London in 1829

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2019-05-01

Great Tits are the largest of their family in the UK. Like Blue Tits they can nest in some unusual locations and they readily use nest boxes. Research on Tits at Whytham Woods has been going for >70 years since 1947! https://t.co/9R9URm8jD0

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2019-04-12

For your delight, we present "Curiosities of Ornithology" (1871), featuring such incredible as the kākāpō, satyr tragopan, blue-throated barbet, violet turaco & Knysna turaco. Explore more by T.W. Wood thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/7CBSZLz3zl

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2019-04-04

On this day in in 1570: Bohemian ornithologist Václav Wač found the remains of a wing of a new bird, named after him as Wač's Wing when live specimens were found. English publishers, unfamiliar with the Slavic letter č, soon corrupted it to 'Waxwing'.

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2019-04-01

The last in the Turkey Vulture series is just a lovely headshot of the bird! Turkey Vultures are the most common vulture here in the states!
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2019-03-08

Avian air sac system of the Feral Rock Dove (Columba livia) for The Dissection of Vertebrates 3rd Edition, by Dr. Gerardo De Iuliis & Dino Pulerà, published by Elsevier/Academic Press

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2019-03-07

New at Potoos As An Internet Phenomenon ... https://t.co/MM1yoZ5lGM Art credited/linked in the article.

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2019-03-01

Some great sights at nr , early this morning, including this curious leucistic male pochard from the 2nd screen, alongside a male gadwall.

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2019-02-28

I have a couple more 'Ornithology along the Towpath' scribbles for the twitchers and the scratchers this morning - on the top: the crow, easily recognised with its striped vest and straw boater (I've been studying Dumbo by way of research) and on the bottom: the robin,

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2019-02-21