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Eurasian Jay/nötskrika. Värmland, Sweden (April 13, 2025).

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This is the dozy Nilgansito. If you see it popping up, you must take a break immediately. If you're already taking a break, you've just been blessed.

Nilgans 🐣 (Egyptian goose) am Inselsee-West im Unteren Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Ost.

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A few hours left to vote in round 2 of the Paradisaeidae tournament!

Vote for your favourite Birds-of-Paradise here.

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a brown clay plate. I don't use brown clay often, and for once I used coloured slip instead of underglaze. I enjoyed playing with brown clay but it's so messy... it's probably not gonna happen again, since I work mostly at home now lmao

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Bleeding hearts.

Series of mixed media collages using pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and paper. (ko-fi)

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started a new sketchbook

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Simplified bird #38 - twelve-wired bird-of-paradise

( requested by @bakageta )

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Birdwatcher (Zakir Jafry, Oni Press) has been out for a while now, so it's time I re-share a bunch of the art I did for this stellar little science-focused board game. I'll post the art in sets so I'm not spamming you guys with way too many birds all at once, haha.

Left to right, top to bottom:

Displaying male Arfak Astrapia. This species displays by hanging (and swinging!) upside down from a branch with their huge tail pointed upward.

Displaying male Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise. These lemon yellow guys are very shaped, and their display involves slapping the ladies' faces with their weird wiry tails.

Displaying male Standardwing Bird of Paradise. Seriously who made you go all out like this? White flag-like "standards" rise from the shoulders and stand straight up in the air, while their turquoise breast feathers fan out at a crazy angle.

Broad-plumed Lophorina male. This guy is just chilling, not in memey orb mode, but check out that shiny spangled blue breast shield, and the fringed cape feathers hanging off his shoulders (not the wings, which are folded back and barely visible here).

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Follow your dreams like a Nilgansito.

A/N: A Nilgansito's dream is catching flies.

Nilgänse 🐣 (Egyptian geese) am Pumpsee im Rosensteinpark, Bad Cannstatt.

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¡Madre de Dios! ¡Es el pato colorado!

Kolbenenten ♂️+♀️ (red-crested pochards) am Max-Eyth-See, Mühlhausen.

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イタチ（Weasel）

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Simplifed bird #79 - california scrub-jay

( requested by @scrub-jay )

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firesetter (2024)kiernan sjursen-lien i painted this months ago, but today, the mountains we call home still burn. if you're in los angeles during this crisis, please stay safe- whether you are human, or not.

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Sloth bear, Melursus ursinus

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Eastern amberwing dragonfly catching a ride on an American alligator

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