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Undated image of Rigo Sandoval before his disappearance during a practice session with the Phantom Riders.

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Male Slate-colored Junco in the snow. Private commission.

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he's just out here setting a bad example for literally everyone

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Male Slate-colored Junco in the snow. Private commission.

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2024 was somehow a really productive year for art for me despite me having less time than ever for it, haha. I finished up all of the art for the Nature board game Flight module (releasing 2025, including plenty of art I haven't shared here yet), did art for work and more Lord Huron fanart for fun on my own time, and did more Waymakers birds this year than last too!

So thanks to all of you for your comments and your reblogs and your general well-wishes because it's folks like you who keep me motivated to create! Tumblr especially, honestly - we're all stuck here on this hellsite together and I love the community that it has turned into.

See you in 2025 with lots more art to come!

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Merry Christmas from a male Habronattus pyrrithrix! He’s all decked out in Christmas colors and here to celebrate the lights.

I often say that if I hadn’t been obsessed with birds from a young age, I might have had a career studying jumping spiders instead. They’re just teddy bears with extra eyes and legs!

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Northern Cardinal on alder, private commission.

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One week! One week until I can finally upload the thing I finished like a month ago, hahaha. Hope everyone's gifts are going well!

Hey all Secret Santa-ers! Just a reminder that you have ten days until you can begin posting your gifts! Can't wait to see what you've been working on!

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Lectavis bretincola, a late Cretaceous member of the Enantiornithes from Argentina, chows down on a captured hermit crab.

The only fossils of this species found so far are legs, but they were long and relatively sturdy, suggesting the bird had a similar size and lifestyle to medium-sized wading birds like curlews. They lived in and around freshwater or brackish lakes and river deltas and possibly feasted on crustaceans and other invertebrates found in those habitats.

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Say goodbye to the vanishing day

Death is only a heartbeat away

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Great Gray Owl, done for The Institute for Bird Populations

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Inktober 2016 Day 30: Wreck

A Mariana Kingfisher perches on an old overgrown tank, a relic of World War II.

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For SciArtSeptember 14: Glowing

Many birds have UV-reflecting parts. In Red Grouse (Willow Ptarmigan), combs above the eye reflect much brighter in the UV spectrum in females and immatures than in adult males. This is likely because carotenoids, pigments which produce red-colored skin and feathers in many birds, seem to mask UV reflectivity, but read more at Mougeot et al. 2007, which inspired this illustration.

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Hey all Secret Santa-ers! Just a reminder that you have ten days until you can begin posting your gifts! Can't wait to see what you've been working on!

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If I can’t have it, nobody can.

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A couple more quick paintings from Kingdom season 2

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I recently finished a really fun private commission! These are speculative hybrids - Cedar Waxwing crossed with Scarlet and Western tanagers. This could probably never happen in reality, but it’s so fun to imagine what the resulting bird could look like if it ever did!