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"We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn, nor at liberty to erase the past or dim the future." #worldenvironmentday

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Mood.

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I've messed around with the details on these guys' faces for long enough, so as of TODAY my Bird Beak Specializations series is available as open edition prints! To give these birds an extra special sense of purpose, $5 of ALL ORDERS will be donated to the Audubon Society of Portland to help them acquire the resources they need to rehabilitate wildlife, educate the public on living peacefully with urban critters, and fund the ongoing conservation efforts that are more important now than ever before. PRINT DETAILS: 10"x10", acid-free & archival fine art paper, signed, $25 each. Will be printed forever, will help wildlife forever. 🦉🐦🦇Get one or collect 'em all over at www.specimenillustrations.com 🐿🦆🦅 (at Portland, Oregon)

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Settling in.

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Short-nosed bear lurking in an old sketchbook.

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I pledge allegiance. #earthday

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Eliminate hunger. #birdfeeding

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Signage for Saturday's march complete. Hoping EVERYBODY makes an effort to show up, wherever in the world you are. #marchforscience

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Pareidolia is what it's called when our mind finds patterns where there aren't any, like seeing familiar shapes in the clouds or a ferocious face on the wings of a moth. Nature is tricky. New series of moths in progress (thanks to pareidolia). (at Willamette Falls)

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Abandoned skeleton.

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Doing 'shrooms tonight. New sketchbook.

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Think about it.

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The only thing I like more than puns are biology-related puns. #protest #protist #biology

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The flaking, moss-encrusted trunk of a young paperbark maple #tree.

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What are you reading for #worldbookday ?? I just finished Derrick Jensen's latest and can't recommend it enough. Powerful writing on the most destructive myth we've ever let ourselves believe. Read, share, repeat. . . "People protect what's important to them, and human supremacists have shown time and time again that their sense of superiority...is more important to them than not destroying the capacity of this planet to support life, including, ironically, their own." -Derrick Jensen, "The Myth of Human Supremacy", 2016.

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Gang's all here: flock of "birds with cool beaks". The weird looking turkey vulture (top right) is still my favorite.

#birds #art #drawing #biology #naturascience