ornithology

Wren Trodlodytes troglodytes cut to white watercolour illustration

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch Loxigilla noctis completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Montserrat oriole Icterus oberi completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Antillean crested hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Bananaquit Coereba flaveola completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Pearly eyed thrasher Margarops fuscatus completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Hooded crow Corvus cornix showing distinctive colouring

Carrion crow Corvus corone showing large bill and glossy black feathers

Carrion crow Corvus corone with crows in flight behind

Bittern Botaurus stellaris cut to white showing cryptic colouring and large beak and legs

Fieldfare Turdus pilaris with hawthorn berry sitting on branch

Fieldfare pair Turdus pilaris in hawthorn tree with one eating a berry.

Male Pied flycatcher in amongst leaves of the English oak Quercus robur

Redwing Turdus iliacus perched on a branch, with a berry in its beak

Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches.  Stippled illustration showing singing, feeding, and preening.

Beak comparison in Darwin’s finches showing use feeding, singing, and preening.  Line drawing.

Singing Darwin’s Finch Geospiza fulginosa showing beak in use.  

Singing Darwins Finch Geospiza fuliginosa.  Line drawing showing Galapagos finch and beak use.

Bird preening Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris line drawing showing the beak in use in parasite removal

Preening Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris line drawing showing the beak in use in parasite removal

Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed.  Stippled illustration showing beak adaptability.

Short-eared owl Asio flammeus in heather

Scarlet macaw Ara macao pen and ink illustration with colour top wash.  Illustration from “The Hidden Universe” by Alex Antonelli.

Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).  Illustration shows an albatross above the wides with distinctive wide wing span and hooked book with tube nostrils.