#birb challenge

[coldshrugs]

and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance i hope you dance

happy birthday, @iron-sparrow!! you're a joy to know and i hope the next year is filled with love and lots of little lights 💗

[mangysah]

You’ve Grown Up

— True Colors Zine 🌻 | @anizinesinc

[occasionallybirds]

Birding would be a lot easier if warblers always just hopped onto the path in front of me.

Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens)

September 20, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[nozomi-mats]

Commission work done for Jordan on Twitter!

[baublekute]

Birbfest 2025. Ross's Turaco.

[tinylongwing]

SciArt September 6: Understory

A Scaled Antpitta stands and surveys its surroundings on the forest floor.

Just a quick little painting of what ebird describes as "a plump ball on sticks"! Perfect bird.

[supposedlysecretlysapphic]

Day 3 of Birbtober is Kingfisher, so here's a common kingfisher!

[witchcatcreations]

Bird Whisperer Project Feb 2025- Common Pigeon

I did a little doodle with my faber-castell pitt artist brush pens! Pleased with how it came out <3

You can purchase the original in my shop!

[ut-girl666]

Making a Finch Chain, bc it’s my anniversary of using Finch, and this little birb changing my life.

All finch users on Tumblr:

Show off your birb! You can brag about them, or just give us a pic of them, either way, I just wanna see all my fellow Tumblrina’s birbs!

Here’s mine:

Finch, They/Them

They are 1 year old as of yesterday!

They’re currently in the Alps, Europe.

Tell me about your birbs!

[cheapsweets]

The Gabbling Wuggthea

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge from @maniculum (thanks again for posting these challenges!)

Pencil sketch, then lines in Sailor fude nib fountain pen, using Diamine Sepia ink.

Thought process under the cut…

"Rabanus says of the Wuggthea: ‘The Wuggthea gets its name from its talkativeness; not, as some would have it, because Wuggtheas fly in groups; clearly, they are named for the cry they give. It is a most talkative species of bird and makes an irritating noise, and can signify either the empty prattle of philosophers or the harmful wordiness of heretics.’

More can be said of the nature of the Wuggthea. The Wuggthea lives in the woods and flies chattering from one tree to another, as a talkative man ceaselessly tells others about his neighbours, even the shameful things he knows about them. When the Wuggthea sees someone pass, it chatters, and if it finds anyone hiding from the world, it does the same, just as a talkative man slanders not only worldly men but also those hidden whom a religious house conceals. A Wuggthea, captured and finally secured, is shut away on its own to learn to speak words clearly. Sometimes it happens that a Wuggthea, held in confinement, escapes; then the bird, which was formerly talkative, makes even more noise after its escape."

I'll be honest, I like the sound of this bird (probably a lot more than the author, from the sounds of it!).

We don't get a lot of description of the appearance of this bird, but I imagine it would be fairly small (since it flocks together), and fairly plain (as a fan of birds, 'plain' is relative, but I imagine if there was much in the way of distinguishing features they would have been mentioned.

I knew I wanted to draw a flock of these birds, ideally being as loud and obnoxious as possible. Then I had the thought of them bothering a traveller (hence the excuse for some more medieval-style oak trees). Then I thought about Disney Princesses, and Sleeping Beauty (with her entirely not period-appropriate outfit - as an aside, I found a new interesting website to check out...), being surrounded not by demure and deferential chirping cardinals and bluejays, but by a flock of overly enthusiastic Wuggthea all eager to show off all the great sounds they've discovered (and you just know that if any of these birds did escape from captivity, they absolutely will have learned some swear words along the way... :p

Not deliberately trying to guess the identity of this bird, but I did take a lot of inpiration from one of my favourite common birds that loves to adopt weird and interesting sounds, from radios and birdcall to car alarms (spoiler warning for what I think it might be, but I may have also taken a little inspiration from this post... ;)

[surfeit-of-stoats]

like we have to talk about Tashi we have to look at me look at me we have to LOOK AT ME WE HAVE TO sit down we have to talk about her. a girl who lost everything becomes the woman behind a "great man" but she would have been a superstar in her own right, men would have trailed behind her like the fiery wake left by a comet. except she doesn't GET THAT because of ONE MOMENT. and all of that pain and all of that rage is just INSIDE OF HER. do you understand?? do you get it???? do you know what it's like to have your life vanish like that???? do you have any idea what it's like to be reduced to someone in the sidelines when you should be the main character? when you could have ruled the fucking world? do you have any idea?

god. GOD

[amischiefofmuses]

Had to put a few seconds of silence at the start because tumblr, but this is probably one of my best attempts at singing songs from epic thus far, I only did Tiresias' parts, so forgive the awkward silences in the middle.

[alirex-art]

I did this for my school's drawing event, theme was masquerade ball

[byrdbr4in]

Challenging myself to draw a bird a day!!

Day 1: Kingfisher

[birdhism]

[anubiarts]

flying through the fields - Scenestember (1 out of 6) entry

I want to see how small I can go with these, as a personal, extra challenge