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!
https://t.co/or6ZJflKsD

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For the final day of these posters is how my way of presenting evolutionary trees started. It is something I really enjoy doing. In here you can see Centrosaurine Ceratopsids, Ornithomimosaurs and Alvarezsaurs, Dromaeosaurs and Wessex Fm

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

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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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More ornithological titbits this fine day - herons and ducks. I can't think of anything to add to that, really.

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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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happy valentine's day to falconers, ornithologists, birdwatchers, and raptor educators specifically

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This one's a little older than the date I'm posting it, but I needed to post it at some point, right?

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Valentine’s lore! In French folklore on 14thFeb Mother Nature called on the birds to choose their mates.

Try a little ornithomancy on 14th, first bird you see foretells your sweetheart!
Goldfinch=person of means. Duck=stable relationship. Dove=loving marriage!

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Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus (Ferdinand A semi-aquatic mammal found in eastern Australia. It is 1 of 5 species of monotremes, the only egg-laying mammals. The first Europeans to encounter them were bemused by its beaver-like body and duck's bill

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Walter's parents also footed the bill for expeditions to seek out new specimens such as the Queen Alexandra Butterfly (Ornithoptera alexandrae) one of the largest butterflies in the world.

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I forgot to share these, my and my friends are playing (and planning on playing) some quickies, and these are my two characters for that. My shapeshifting ghost ornithologist Lior and my divine angel that has no concept of humans, Fionn.

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Four sets of eggs of ducks in the Tomkinson Collection - Smew, Goldeneye, Common Merganser (or Goosander) and Pochard all collected in the early 1900s and showing how collectors displayed duck eggs with the down from the nest

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I will draw your dirigible or ornithopter or spaceship.
DM me for further information.

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The male King of Saxony bird-of-paradise has some of the most extraordinary feathers in the world - their uniquely modified occipital plumes can be 50cm long with 40-50 glossy blue enamel-looking flags decorating the bare feather shaft and help to attract a mate

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