#ornitology

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[littledisgustingart]

Awebo!

EDIT: you can get a print of the Awebo now! 🙏

[darkrooklobby]

Sometimes I have to remind myself that posting art online is like screaming into a void 🙃🦉✌️

The new year holds a lot of issues for me. Art is difficult, life as an artist is difficult, and the world isn't kind. The sense of impending doom and failure looms over me. Why is nothing ever easy?

[inprnt]

"Pigeon Party" by Sluggy on INPRNT

[vampyrwhispers]

Some photos I took during my zoology terrain excursion this May :)

Green rose chafer (Cetonia aurata)

Giant peacock moth (Saturnia pyri)

Calosoma sycophanta

Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Left to right: Protaetia lugubris, P. cuprea, C. aurata

European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

[tooboredtothinkofaname]

[bastards-utopia]

Art merch that i keep being too nervous to order and sell The ideas include naturalistic stickers with bird motif and Paleo art.

1 Spino print on handmade paper

2 Wooden Triassic cuddle pin

3 Two sticker options from impregnated paper

you can try to convince me to order them and open a store xD

( And supporting me by ordering commissions that would buy me an etsy store !)

[paskuda-lynx]

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT ONE ARTICLE DESCRIBING SLUGS PREYING ON PASSERINE NESTLINGS?

I decided that Tumblr needs to see this Sylvia communis living through The Horrors(tm).

You can read the full paper in pdf here!

TL;DR: large slug species, often of Arion genus - including the notorious invasive Arion vulgaris - sometimes are noticed attacking the broods of ground-nesting and shrub-nesting passerine birds. Such preying fenomenon is likely opportunistic, not intentional, but the rarety of it leaves the birds so unprepared when they find their eggs or hatched offspring devoured by mystery slime that they don't have any fitting behavioural defences to this, up to trying to incubate a dead chick with a slug still eating the corpse.

I even found some popular science notes reviewing it in English:

Giant slugs snack on baby birds

When they accidentally run into bird nests sitting on the ground, some slugs help themselves to a free, easy meal of bird chicks.