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[draweverybird]

February 27 - March 3, 2025

- Bougainville Honeyeater

- Masked Gnatcatcher

- Common Pauraque

- Eastern Bearded-Greenbul

- Scaly-Sided Merganser

- Malaysian Hawk-Cuckoo

The honeyeater was my warmup, okay.

[draweverybird]

January 22 - 26, 2025

- Great Skua

- Cuban Tody

- Ruddy Tody-Flycatcher

- Crowned Woodnymph

- Yellow-throated Mountain Greenbul

- Crescent-chested Puffbird

I took a nice long break since my last post. Got a bit burnt out, as I thought might happen. I feel like I have more energy to work this project again so here's hoping I can stick to it, for a while at least.

[draweverybird]

September 17 - 20, 2024

- Red-breasted Dotterel

- Red-billed Firefinch

- Brown Cacholote

- Malayan Crested Fireback

- Madagascar Spinetail

- Forest Penduline-Tit

2 birds in this lineup are real life phoenix, true facts, trust me bro, I'll let you figure out which ones.

[draweverybird]

July 25 - August 8, 2024

Mourning Dove

Anna's Hummingbird

Northern Flicker

Steller's Jay

Black-capped Chickadee

Varied Thrush

American Robin

House Sparrow

American Goldfinch

Dark-eyed Junco

White-crowned Sparrow

Spotted Towhee

Slightly different format for this one. My mom wanted a pattern made from my bird drawings, but I have no experience getting a good quality scan of my drawings, so I did this digitally while attempting to replicate how I draw them with colored pencils. Luckily for this project, these are all birds I haven't drawn before, so they all count I say!

[draweverybird]

June 24 - 29, 2024

- Sri Lanka Blue-Magpie

- Antipodes Parakeet

- Dwarf Koel

- Handsome Flycatcher

- Black-faced Cormorant

- Sulawesi Honey-Buzzard

Someone looked at that flycatcher and thought "what a handsome lad."

[draweverybird]

May 21 - 23, 2024

- Gray Fantail

- Crested Owl

- White Woodpecker

- Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager

- Little Gull

- Southern Screamer

Some good names in this bunch. Little gull, southern screamer. One's just a little guy, and the other one likes to scream. That's all I need to know.

Been struggling somewhat with this project. It takes me a while to fill a page and this is very much a secondary project for me, and I feel like I've been devoting less and less time to work on it. While I love the way the drawings are turning out, it takes me probably on average of an hour to do each drawing. I've been considering trying to make these drawings less complex so I can get more done quicker, a bit of a quality vs quantity problem. I'm not sure I'm ready to go that route yet, but it's either keep doing what I'm doing and accept I'll probably never finish this project, or find a way to speed up my drawings. The goal of this project is to simply draw every bird, no matter the style or quality. But I can't help trying to make each drawing as good as possible. And it's not even that I think a less detailed drawing wouldn't be as good, it's just I enjoy how these turn out, but it takes so damn long to do them. Anyway, that's just a vent/ramble. This project is not dead, just slow to update right now.

[draweverybird]

April 9 - 11, 2024

- Chat Flycatcher

- Aquatic Warbler

- Namaque Dove

- Blue Eared-Pheasant

- Sri Lanka Junglefowl

Took me way to long to realize that it was a blue <space> eared-pheasant and not a blue-eared <space> pheasant. Thought I was getting cheated out of seeing a bird with blue ears.

[draweverybird]

February 24-25, 2024

- African Pied Wagtail

- Brown Mesite

- Gough Island Finch

- Soft-plumaged Petrel

- Blackthroat

Not many pictures of the gough island finch.

[draweverybird]

February 10-11, 2024

- Nava's Wren

- Black-billed Treehunter

- Sumatran Frogmouth

- Pallas's Sandgrouse

- Cedar Waxwing

- Common Ground Dove

Can't describe my delight when the frogmouth came up on my bird randomizer. Who doesn't love those scrungly looking guys!

[draweverybird]

January 26 - 28, 2024

- Townsend's Warbler

- Northern Crombec

- Yellow Thornbill

- Plum-throated Cotinga

- Black Antbird

- Brown-capped Redstart

Had to break my rule of finding my birds through random selection with the townsend's warbler. One of them crossed my path the other day and I had to draw one, such a cute and bright little bird.

[draweverybird]

January 20-21, 2024

- Philippine Collared-Dove

- Northern Cardinal

- Little Woodpecker

- White-tailed Nuthatch

- Common Diving-Petrel

- Dusky Myzomela

What does it say about me that I see a theme between the names woodpecker and nuthatch...

[draweverybird]

January 1 - 6, 2024

- Piratic Flycatcher

- Sumatran Treepie

- Fiery-browed Myna

- Cholo Alethe

- Dull-capped Attila

- Small-billed Timamou

The alethe and attila are besties.

[draweverybird]

December 24 - 26, 2023

- Andean Solitaire

- Banda Sea Pitta

- Victorian Warbler

- Glittering-throated Emerald Hummingbird

- Chestnut-breasted Whiteface

- Mouse-colored Antshrike

Gotta love bird naming logic. Oh that bird is kind of grey and kind of brown, so let's call it a "mouse-colored antshrike". Nevermind that mice come in all kinds of colors...

[draweverybird]

December 5 - 19, 2023

- Rufous-capped Motmot

- South African Swallow

- White-chinned Swift

- Cocos Cuckoo

- Shelley's Eagle-Owl

- Brown Fulvetta

As of writing this, there is only one picture of the Shelley's Eagle-Owl. And luckily it's a pretty decent one. Well, decent enough.

[draweverybird]

November 30 - December 3. 2023

- Javan Cochoa

- Olrog's Cinclodes

- Sooty Tyrannulet

- Stephanie's Astrapia

Some tails go up, some tails go down, and some tails go on and on and on...

[draweverybird]

November 18 - 26, 2023

- Sichuan Treecreeper

- Rusty Sparrow

- Puna Yellow-Finch

- Gabar Goshawk

- Gray-breasted Parakeet

- Giant Pitta

That sparrow looking like it's seen some shit

[draweverybird]

November 4 - 10, 2023

- Andaman Cuckooshrike

- Rufous-naped Tit

- Shaft-tailed Whydah

- Andaman Scops-Owl

- Glittering-tailed Hummingbird

That owl be like "Da f*ck they just say?!" Hummingbirds must be talking sh*t.

(Also yes, two "Andaman" birds in this pull. No typos.)