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:iconewilloughby:
36 small bird illustrations for work.

Proof that I can draw extant dinosaurs too!

A cookie for anyone who can name all 36 species. They're all very common birds of the eastern US.

Many of these poses are loosely referenced from creative commons images.
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*Deborah-Valentine Jul 26, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
wonderful!!!
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:iconmuffin-wrangler:
Absolutely beautiful work. I love the integration of linework and colours, it really makes them pop out of the background!
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Am I the only one who initially read "bushtit" as "bullshit"?
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:iconewilloughby:
Nope, you're not. :D
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~Kazuma27 Jun 12, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Wow, many of those birds live in my place! :D
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~novablue Jun 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Beautiful work!
I can name a few of them... but only the ones that are also found here in Sweden *grin*
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:iconewilloughby:
I'm interested in hearing the ones that live in Sweden, if you wouldn't mind!
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~novablue Jun 12, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Sure! This will be good training for me also, trying to remember their English names... Mind you, the subspecies is probably wrong. It seems our birds are usually Eurasian and don't mingle with their American counterparts much, so they are not the exact same species... but close(ish)!

The ones I recognize (with a note the subspecies is probably not correct):
- Pidgeon
- Wren
- (Common?) Gull
- Starling
- Canada goose (introduced species)
- Crow... kind of... our native crow is the Hooded crow but you can find black crows at the Southern tip of the country, sometimes
- House sparrow (very common!)
- Mallard
- Heron

There are also some birds that look very similar to our birds but have some differences so that I can tell that they are not the same species, but I assume close related... These would be:
- The black-headed gull looks very similar to a species we have that is named... well, Black-headed gull lol. Just slightly different markings.
- The Nuthatch looks different from ours, but close enough that I can see that they are related, the basic shape is the same, basic colours are the same but markings somewhat different
- The tit next to the Nuthatch likewise looks similar to a species we have named the Coal tit
- The Kingfisher shows similarities as well
- As does the Dove, which reminds me (but is not identical to) our Eurasian collared dove
- The yellow/black sparrow looks very similar to one of our birds but I can't remember its name...
- The 2nd to last one reminds me a bit of a linnet

For a bunch of them I can recognize the general shape as a type of bird we have here (eg the thrush) but our species are different, as well :)

Hope that helps!
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:iconewilloughby:
Thanks for the info. :) Most of those are indeed the same families as the birds shown here (sometimes same genus), but different actual species.
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*namu-the-orca Jun 12, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
The black crows living at the tip of Sweden are Carrion crows and not American crows like this one :) There is hardly any way to tell them apart, though :P Same with the heron; this one's a Great blue heron while we have the Grey heron :D
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