#endling

[claypigeonpottery]

remember me as you pass by

as you are now so once was I

as I am now you will surely be

prepare thyself to follow me

[bluebird-ascended]

where is everyone?

inspired by @shreksstepfather's poem its fire fr

[demon-from-your-dreams]

Another piece in my series, this time depicting another favorite of mine, being the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius).

At the time they were alive, passenger pigeons where the worlds most abundant bird species with numbers up to 5 billion in the wild and flocks reported to take hours to pass overhead.

Passenger pigeons were sexually diamporphic, with males being brighter in color and larger than their female counterparts.

From their massive numbers and sweeping flocks, the endling of their species (An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies), known as Martha, passed in 1914, a female who lived to about 29 years old in the Cincinnati zoo.

Upon her death, the species was declared extinct.

[xylographica]

cynocephalus

8 x 11 in woodcut print

Available on my shop

[necroticvessel]

Smaugust 2025 / Endling

[feather-bone]

[ID: an illustration of a dodo bird, a fat grey flightless bird with yellow beak and legs, and three tail feathers. It is on a blue-yellow gradient background with white dots. End.]

I have no fear of anyone, I'm dumb and wild and free. I am a flightless bird, and there'll be no more after me.

[watsonscr]

This game is just beautiful, finished it yesterday. Wasn't planning to make this the last (and only) art of the year from me and wasn't even planning to post this in the first place, but here I am

[introverttraven]

An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct.

The last thylacine died in 1936 and it was the end of existence not only for that one species, but for the whole Thylacinidae family.