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zeledonia:

budgiechops:

helennorcott:

I got some new watercolour paints as a Christmas treat to myself, and obviously I wanted to do some birds first! A zebra finch and a tufted titmouse, because they are the sweetest little birds. I’m going to paint my budgies Pixel and Widget soon!

These are also available from my Redbubble account as stickers (without the watermark and background) here: 
{FINCH}
{TITMOUSE}

Hey everyone, I did some watercolours over at my art blog, and I thought you guys might like to see them because birds!

@lotsandlotsofbirds a good round titmouse

jenntalksnature:

The extremes of red-tailed hawk color morphs. White to very, very dark. Both are the same species, Buteo jamaicensis.

The bird on the left has an extreme lack of melanin production and the bird on the right over-produces melanin. Melanin is produced by cells called melanocytes, which also produce pheomelanin, which results in a reddish-brown color. Note that the bird on the left has a red tint to her tail even though her melanocytes aren’t functioning normally, this could be due to porphyrins and/or carotenoids contributing to the red color in red-tailed hawk tails as well.

Both birds still exhibit the common trait of being total derps (as demonstrated in the third set of photos).

paulkangart:

“Sue”

(Inks & Watercolors 2015)

Took me all night, but I finished my version of a feathered T-Rex 🙂

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