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✧ A Mothers Revenge ✧

A kestrel seeks revenge on a European Starling after it kills and eats her chicks. In the U.S, European starlings have a devastating impact on our native ecosystems in the entire United States. This species is known for their aggression towards other cavity nesting birds, outcompeting native species for nesting spots and food sources. They’ve been known to kill many native species from bluebirds, to woodpeckers, to kestrels. They are violent towards competing species, destroying their nests, and pecking holes in eggs laid by other birds. Not to mention, they also destroy crops and devour multitudes of grain each year.

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I wanted to portray something intense to kind of grab people’s attention to this problem. Most people don’t know how horribly invasive they are. While they’re pretty birds, they’re not meant to live in the United States. I wanted to use colors like red (to represent anger, sadness, revenge, betrayal) to portray what native species have to endure every year towards a bird that was never supposed to even come in contact with them. And colors like yellow (to represent wrongfully perceived innocence and guilt).

The spills of blood can be represented as the successful revenge the kestrel has, or, the multitudes of blood spilled from native species by European Starlings.

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Did you know? All the European Starlings in North America descended from 100 birds set loose in New York’s Central Park in the early 1890s. The birds were intentionally released by a group who wanted America to have all the birds that Shakespeare ever mentioned. It took several tries, but eventually the population took off. Today, more than 200 million European Starlings range from Alaska to Mexico.

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Sanctuary by Ryan Gitter

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going

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My boss is making me work even though theres discord channels to read like morning paper?

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how it feels to come home from work at 8pm eat a huge portion of pork fried rice and immediately go beddy bye afterwards

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thinking about that one video

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Vintage Skunk Figurine

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Lethal Company

Collection of all my lethal company art I've made so far! Hopefully will make more in the future! These loose and very experimental paintings have really been super enjoyable to make and have pushed my style a lot!

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Dinocephalosaurus, a strange, viviparous reptile from the Triassic, gives live birth in the shallows.

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rich people be losing theoretical money and making it our problem. like imagine anyone not wealthy being like "this is how much money I thought I would be making and since I'm not, I'm taking it from someone who needs it way more than me" and then we call it inflation or rising costs of living

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today on neat hozier retweets: disappearing birds!

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In the club humbled by the totality of my ignorance

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hired a galapagos finch at my burger joint and after 2 generations it evolved to take peoples orders

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Art by Syd Mead. If I understand the source correctly, this one’s called “Innovations,” and is a surrealist city aerial view done for U.S. Steel in 1968.