#timor stubtail

[saint-nevermore]

a little guy, done as a study on feather textures in small birds. i had a really good time with this one. special shoutout to photographer Dubi Shapiro, who's photographs of the species i used as references for this beastie ^_^

[reginaimissyou]

my parents bought a book called “all the birds in the world” and it weights like ten fucking pounds, it’s 800 pages long cause there’s 10,000+ birds. I went through the whole fucking thing, it took hours, and wrote down the dumbest bird names, my favorite is “elegant tit.” I swear these are all real. 

Caucasian snowcock

Handsome francolin

Blood pheasant 

Wandering whistling-duck

Orinoco goose 

American comb duck

Hardhead

Hottentot teal

Lemon, peaceful, zebra, laughing dove

Mindanao bleeding-heart

Many-coloured fruit-dove 

Sombre pigeon

Oilbird

Great potoo

Standard-winged nightjar

Minute hermit

Hooded visorbearer

Green mango

Red-tailed comet

Coppery metaltail

Marvelous spatulatail

Colorful puffleg

Empress brilliant 

Charming hummingbird 

Common squirrel-cuckoo

Buff-spotted flufftail

Inaccessible rail

Limpkin

Magenta petrel

Intermediate egret

Red-footed boody

Antarctic shag

Blue noddy

Lava gull

Chocolate boobook

Long-whiskered owlet

Fearful owl

Little bee-eater

Oriental dollarbird

Pitta-like ground-roller

Moustached puffbird

Speckled tinkerbird

Scaly-throated honeyguide

Greater flameback

Blood-colored woodpecker 

Laughing falcon

Cryptic forest-falcon

Oriental hobby

Merlin

Superb parrot

Elusive antpitta

Rock earthcreeper

Wren-like rushbird

Cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner

Buffy tit-spinetail

Firewood-gatherer

Helmeted manakin

Ticking doradito 

Social flycatcher 

Sad flycatcher 

Noisy scrub-bird

Orange chat

Obscure honeyeater

Tit berrypecker

Drab whistlers 

Clicking shrike-babbler

Small minivet

Yap cicadabird

Hooded monarch

Ratchet-tailed treepie

Beautiful jay

Elegant tit

Neddicky

Cloud cisticola

Pygmy cupwing

Little grassbird

Eurasian crag martin

Leaf-love

Hairy-backed bulbul

Iberian chiffchaff

Timor stubtail

Fluffy-backed tit-babbler

Lesser necklaced laughingthrush

Wallcreeper

Flutist wren

Splendid starling 

Cuban solitaire

Bluethroat

Plumbeous water-redstart

Cape sugarbird

Black-belted flowerpecker

Naked-faced spiderhunter

Beautiful, handsome, superb, lovely, regal, gorgeous, magnificent, tiny, plain sunbird 

Long-tailed widowbird

Compact weaver

Rock firefinch

Blue-breasted cordon-bleu

Cinnamon ibon

Hoary redpoll

Plushcap

Purple honeycreeper

Vegetarian finch 

Merida flowerpiercer