Mix media Sketchbook study of a Cormorant which i've been seeing more of quite lately :)
This is using #prismacolours #pentalpastels #winserandnewtonwatercoloursand tracing paper inbetween the study and background using two Sketchbook pages
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#sketchbookartwork #birdstudy #cormorant #wildlife
Downloads for #BirdStudy papers in 2025 were 44% up on 2024, and 42% up on the previous 3-year average. Browse the 2025 Volume 72 below, including a HPAI special issue (1) and other wide-ranging #ornithology topics, including ~30% #OpenAccess papers.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7...
Work in progress - Pheasant bird study. Keeping it simple with basic linework and base colours. Stay tuned for completed peice.
#Krita #KritaArt #DigitalPainting #DigitalSketch #Pheasant #BirdStudy #WildlifeArt #DigitalIllustration #MadeWithKrita #ConceptArt #SpeedPaint #NatureDrawing
New issue of #BirdStudy now online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/c...
White Stork demographics
Automated detection of seabirds
White-tailed Eagle dispersal
Sedge Warbler migration
Wintering raptors in Greece
Container colour selection
Hobby movements
Nesting Black-necked Grebes
#ornithology
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Diet of Little Terns Sternula albifrons at the nest during the breeding period on the Atlantic coast of Morocco (Province of Benslimane, Morocco)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology
As what seems to be a bit of tradition here's a bird :D hope everyone had a merry christmas and happy new year!!! 🐦🎉🍾✨️
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#sketchbookart #newyear #prismacolorstudy #sketchbook #newyear2026 #goldfinch #birdstudy #prismacolor
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Breeding success of the Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis varies between gull and tern colonies
doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
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Marsh Harriers & Buzzards were most abundant wintering raptors in Greek coastal wetlands, which are important areas for Greater Spotted Eagles.
Factors affecting the abundance of wintering raptors in Mediterranean wetlands (Chiatante et al): doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
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Very few Hobbies have been tracked. In this study, two Hobbies were tracked over 10,000 km to Africa.
Movements on the breeding grounds and during migration of female Eurasian Hobbies Falco subbuteo tracked with GPS loggers (Mirski et al): doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
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Refuelling strategies of migrating Sedge Warblers along the Atlantic flyway.
Evaluation of the use of the Atlantic flyway in northern France and the Bay of Biscay by a reedbed specialist bird during the autumn migration (Musseau et al)
doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Bird study from 2022
#digitalart #messyart #sketchyart #bird #birds #birdstudy #owl #barnowl #rooster #falcon #crow #dynamicpose #flying #cute #Ilovebirds
New #OpenAccess in #BirdStudy
When and how to automate image analysis for wildlife monitoring? Guidelines and lessons from a worked example of seabirds in a dynamic coastal environment (Carrington et al.): doi.org/10.1080/0006...
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Got a paper in mind? #BirdStudy is open to all #ornithology submissions, e.g. field studies, behaviour/habitat, initial/final tracking results, conservation, regional or national popn surveys, renewables, urbanisation, predation, camera-trap studies, diet etc: www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbi...
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Movements of White-tailed Eagles around the eastern Baltic.
Habitat-dependent and temporally decreased dispersal pattern in an increasing White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla population in the region east of the Baltic Sea (Firkins et al).
doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
New issue of #BirdStudy
Little Terns nesting in Morocco
Urban Sparrowhawk diet
Urban Blackbird & Robin song shifts
Goosander tracking
Alpine Wheatears
Supplementary feeding of Turtle Doves
Red Kites and wind turbines
Białowieża Robin paternity
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/c...
#ornithology #birds
#oystercatcher #birdart #traditionalart #illustration #ocart #natureart #seabird #noai #wildlifeart #bird #birdstudy
A fragment from one of my unfinished graphic novel
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Artwork (C) 2009 Copyrighted to mmpratt99.
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Do urban birds prefer or avoid different colours, and does it affect how readily they'll visit containers to drink? Does hot weather have an impact?
Effects of water container colour on bird visitation rates and species richness doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology
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Herring Gulls really don't like people staring at them (antipredator response).
The eyes have it: the response of European Herring Gulls Larus argentatus to human eye-gaze doi.org/10.1080/0006...
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Low juv survival in Twites may drive decline in one English remnant breeding population, but wider decline more likely driven by factors affecting all age groups.
Age-specific survival in an English Twite Linaria flavirostris population doi.org/10.1080/0006...
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Switch to autumn crop-sowing and ban on lead angling weights probably influencing big increase in British Mute Swans since 1970s.
The relationship between Mute Swan Cygnus olor population trends in Great Britain and environmental change: doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology
With HPAI bird flu resurging in UK and Western Europe, here's the link to the 2 recent special issues of #BirdStudy on avian influenza: 20 papers on impacts, mitigation, patterns and control. Part 1/2:
#ornithology #seabirds #raptors #birdflu
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Density-dependence of White Storks in N Spain, but landfill closure could limit population growth.
Long-term demographic dynamics of a White Stork population in northern Iberia reveal density-dependent effects
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social
(c) rob Stoeltje, wiki commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appelvink._(40555770115).jpg
Almost a third of UK Hawfinches used artificial birdfood when available, with implications for disease transmission.
Investigating supplementary food use of UK Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes populations using DNA metabarcoding doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#BirdStudy #ornithology
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Which future for the Red Kite Milvus milvus in Sardinia? An analysis of the future scenario of developing wind farms
doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology #renewables
Frank Vassen Wiki Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_Robin_(Erithacus_rubecula),_Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest,_Poland.jpg
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Loyal as a Robin: low frequency of extra-pair paternity in a European Robin Erithacus rubecula population in the natural forest of Białowieża National Park (Poland)
doi.org/10.1080/0006...
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Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers.
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
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New issue of #BirdStudy out today!
Birds on solar farms
Numbers of released Pheasants & Partridges
Woodlarks & Meadow Pipits in Central Europe
Hawfinch supplementary feeding
Black-billed Cuckoo diet
Serengeti Secretarybirds
Tracking Lesser Flamingos
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/c...
#ornithology
#BirdStudy is a society journal of the British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social
Journal info: www.bto.org/our-work/sci...
#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.
