Feb 9
sketch of a kittiwake in a bonnet 🤍
seen from Romania
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sketch of a kittiwake in a bonnet 🤍
Kittiwakes By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994
Gulls (Larinae) subfamily
Which is the best bird?
Heerman's gull
Ring-billed gull
Laughing gull
Saunders's gull
Little gull
Ivory gull
Great black-headed gull
Bonaparte's gull
Red-legged kittiwake
Sabine's gull
Ross's gull
Swallow-tailed gull
Red-legged Kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris), family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska
photograph by Milo Burcham
Birds on the wing, Lundy, Bristol Channel, Devon, 1951
My contribution this year to the Polar Lights zine, tried something more painterly because it's fun ^u^
Go get yourself a copy and support Antarctic conservation research~
18.03.2026 - this is my screaming ledge
Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris
7/2024 Aleutians West County, Alaska
Sam Darmstadt via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC