#heath hen

[extinctionstories]

We watch for movement in the trees, And breathe life into their smoothened pulp. We listen for a snatch of song, And write symphonies in notes we will never hear. We grasp at feathers, And try to hold fast. We paint birds, And we hope, That they will, Be seen, Be known, Be loved. That they will live on, In more than just our paintings.

From Grasping at Feathers, an ode to bird artists, by Chantelle Chapman.

Illustration in traditional gouache, 8x10 inches, featuring iconic extinct birds of America, including: Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon, Molokai O'o, Bachman's Warbler, Heath Hen, Labrador Duck, Great Auk, Eskimo Curlew, and Dusky Seaside Sparrow.

[lifeinterconnected]

ivory bills and heath hens. extinct species and extinct subspecies

[metal-autistic-coven]

to every animal that's ever gone extinct i love you

[whimsy-flags]

hi i have another extinct animal! the Heath Hen is an extinct subspecies of the (not extinct) Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido). it went extinct in 1932.

Here you go!!

[rgibson63]

Lost Americans wheel. Watercolor and ink.

[wayward-delver]

Real Footage of 4 Extinct Animals: 

Thylacine, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Baiji River Dolphin, and the Heath Hen.

[scottpartridge]

Bird Window February 2023, acrylic on panels, window frame, 34.5″ x 56″ 

A piece depicting North America’s disappearing avifauna. Details depict:

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Passenger Pigeon, California Condor

Carolina Parakeet

Azure-Mantled Warbler, Eskimo Curlew, Piping Plover, Golden-Cheeked Warbler, Whooping Crane, Heath Hen

The Azure-Mantled Warbler is a hypothetical species representing those which disappeared prior to recorded history, but which were seen by ancient people and named in languages that are also extinct. 

The piece also depicts several of J. J. Audubon’s mystery birds, most of which have never been recorded since Audubon.  

[bwabbitv3s]

The Birds I Never Met | North America's Extinct Birds

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of Eastern and Central North America to learn about those birds that I might've witnessed had I been alive only a century ago!