#Birdwings

[maplewood126]

Birdwings (dragons of paradise)

the first image is an older drawing i did from 3 years ago, older concept design. Snd these are the new and improved concept ideas!!!

Despite their seemingly welcoming name, the dragons of paradise are all but welcoming. These hostile and stand offish dragons are threatening towards outsiders (other dragon tribes) but amoug their community, they are kind, organized and joyful. Living in the dense jungles of the Nervego (Ner-Vah-go) (literally nevergo but mixed up, if you couldn't tell lol). The jungle itself isnt particurally dangerous, with the most dangerous plants being the manchineel tree and a monsterous fly trap plant that is easily identifiable and avoidable. (They take slow to consume so one must use a knife or talons to get out. However the inside of the plant is thick, meaning your talons or knife need to be sharp.) The reason it is dangerous is because dragons went missing. Many were killed by birdwings or just got lost and starved to death. Birdwings are predatory animals. But they also eat fruit! They have the ability to inject venom into anyone they bite on command, the venom paralyzes the victim and in large doses can be fatal. A dragonet is taught at a young age how to control and use this ability. This tribe is covered in feathers (shown in the older drawing) they're a but medium sized with large wings. They are more like tree hoppers and climbers, which is why they have those large hooked fingers on their wings, to grab onto branches. Their claws are long and hooked so they can get into the bark. The horns, shapes, sizes, feathers and everything varies, however the designs (physical base) remain relevant. They are very colorful dragons with colors ranging from all over the rainbow. Birdwing names are usually involved around bird names, particularly exotic ones from jungles (or africa), Flora and fauna from the jungle, and types of land revolving around a jungle. Their queen is queen Astrapis (a bird of paradise). She is shown in image 2 and 3. Only the dragons of the royal family have the crest on their head. Their history is different, from other tribes. After an ancient war many many centuries before, the birdwings had lost. They were driven from their home (then the plains and forests of the now greater horned dragons (rhinowings)) and forced to find a new home. In a desperate attempt to help her dragons, then queen cassowary lead her dragons into the unexplored jungles. Though brutal and almost uninhabitable at first, the dragons soon coped and became used ti the conditions, building villages and training themselves. Now they weren't forgotten, not at first. The other tribes knew of their whereabouts. But the dragons of paradise didnt show themselves simce they moved, and were slowly forgotten completely. It is only the rhinowings royals who are aware of their existence. As of now, they are stand offish but less likely to kill anyone aho seeks into their land, but rather kidnap them.

Their territory and kingdom is deep within the depths of the jungles

The palace rests in around and amoug the biggest tree in the forest. A waterfall somehow runs through it

[All images from google.] [Things searched: dense jungle, big tree in jungle]

[yeatsihrig]

Wing Study, oil on canvas, 2023.

"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,

The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,

And after many a summer dies the swan...'

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[heartnosekid]

the common green birdwing (ornithoptera priamus) | source

[zegalba]

The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing the largest butterfly in the world

[onenicebugperday]

Rajah Brooke’s birdwing, Trogonoptera brookiana, Papilionidae

Found in Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by ljk1410, 2-5 by gancw1, 6 by jiri_hodecek, 7 by guybroome, and 8 (for scale) by adamardn

[herpsandbirds]

Cairns Birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion), family Papilionidae, QLD, Australia

photograph by Kai

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

This is a Malaysian Moon Moth!

This is a Amesia sanguiflua! It is also in Malaysia! <3

This is a Spanish Moon Moth!

gorgeous stunning amazing beautiful i am In Love

[thackeroy]

This was the first shawl I made, I used Drops Alaska yarns in three different shades of grey (as you can clearly see) and the pattern is the Birdwing shawl by Stephen West. It’s one of his older designs before his current style of chaoticness, I think it was around the time he began experimenting with more unusual elements and shapes in his patterns, it’s from a decade ago. I adore this shawl and honestly wouldn’t mind knitting a second one but with rainbow colours, make it into a pride flag project perhaps?

[histsciart]

Lepidopterans from the Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and of the Physical Sciences, Vol. 1 (1835-1839).

"Lepidopterans" includes both moths and butterflies. The moth in the bottom middle is the lovely Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus), which was once classified as a butterfly. The butterfly in the middle is the male common green birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus). This species exhibits sexual dimorphism in which the female is larger than the male and has brown and white coloring.

[eggfeather]

birdwing

[teknikolor-walters]

do you have any birdwing fun facts?

Orthinoptera alexandrae is the biggest butterfly in the world, it's wingspan is 11 inches! The atlasmoth is still the biggest lepidoptera in the world tho

They're swallowtails! This is significant to me personally because swallowtails are really common where I live and birdwings feed on the same vine (pipevine) which a species of swallowtail around here eats (the pipevine swallowtail)

Pipevines are also poisonous so it's theorized that birdwings are poisonous as well!!

Most birdwings live in the rainforests of New Guinea but there's one species that lives on mainland Australia (orthinoptera richmondia)

[heartnosekid]

cairn's birdwing (ornithoptera euphorion) | source

[chuchu666yay]

Rajah Brooke's Birdwing perched on some Chinese Ixora flowers

[heaveninawildflower]

Ornithoptera, Birdwings (1860)

by Helena Scott (1832–1910).

National Library of Australia.

Wikimedia.

[october-wing]

A plush rat based on the butterfly Cairns Birdwing

Which is currently available in my shop!