@nearbirdstudios
Science illustrator and designer. I like things with feathers. She/her Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios Merch: https://nearbirdstudios.threadless.com
The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.
People know this, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Thanks! Think I'll do an Australian one next 😁
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Test print! There are some things that need to be adjusted, but it's so cool to hold it! 🪶🎨
Did you know there's a new option for registering 2D artwork with the U.S. Copyright Office?
Group Registration for Two-Dimensional Artwork (GR2D) now lets you register 2–20 published two-dimensional pieces with a single application and one filing fee as long as they're from the same calendar year.
Deeply pathetic.
Feed the condors!
Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.
From behind, he looks like he's wearing a fluffy space suit
She'd mostly eaten the graphic bits already!
I was surprised nobody got there before me 😆
It's very fun!
A hawk in melting snow under a Forsythia bush, finishing a meal. She's dark grey above with white underparts that have dense orange barring on her chest and belly. Her eye is bright orange.
Cooper's Hawk with lunch (not too graphic) 🪶
Folks please light up their phones TODAY. The Dems failing to stand together on this is bullshit.
Figure showing simplified cross sections of a developing feather at different stages, sagittal and transverse views.
Illustration I did for this paper on feather development onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐡🧪🪶
Sigh. RI, MI, and VA people, something new to yell at your reps about.
I once ate about half a lethal dose of deadly nightshade by mistake because I couldn't believe anything poisonous would be so delicious
Lots of wembley these days, too: "The hideous moment of confirmation that the diaster presaged in the ely (q.v.) has actually struck."
My favorite's "ely", from The Meaning of Liff: "The first, tiniest inkling that something, somewhere has gone terribly wrong."
Computer scientist/professor on one side, army officer on the other.
Get ready to retire, DeLauro
Please enjoy these loud cotton balls
I just did 15 versions of an enantiornithine and I want to do some with weird wattles, but this job is not the place for it
Somebody please hire me to design theropod plumage full-time, I want to get weirder with it
the alt is almost as good as the image
A regent honeyeater sits on a branch.
Fenner School scientists from the Difficult Bird Research Group have rescued the lost song of the regent honeyeater, offering new hope for the survival of the critically endangered bird: bit.ly/4l2D5Cc @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social
They just can't get rid of the piss filter
requiem for vanished birdsong
Never pass up a chance for a Nobody joke 😁
It's on my list! I've been excited to get to it, but I manage my physical-book nonfiction reading poorly.
