Lauren

@tinylongwing

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Lauren@tinylongwing· 15d

I've got today's #BirdOfTheDay covered with both #grey and #redbeaks with this Heermann's Gull, done for the Waymakers fundraiser last year. Immigrant children in the US need more help than ever. Sign up for this year's race! (and mutuals, DM me for a discount code). runsignup.com/Race/IL/Chic...

Digital illustration of a Heermann's Gull portrait on a misty beach. The gull has a white head, gray chest, and bright red beak and eyering. It looks calm and peaceful, much like the background, reminiscent of a cool foggy day on the west coast of North America.

Lauren@tinylongwing· 18d

Oh boy tough choice for today's #BirdOfTheDay because bird eyes are so captivating, but for #EyeOfTheWild today I'd better go with the Mountain Hawk-Eagle I illustrated for the "Eyesight" card in @northstargames.bsky.social 's game Nature! Check out that piercing golden iris! #BirdArt #SciArt 🪶

Portrait of the face of a Mountain Hawk-Eagle, with a sharp hooked beak, bright yellow eyes, and mottled brown coloration. In the background, long-needled pine branches drape over a blue and tan gradient. The top and bottom of the illustration fade into the background to provide space for (not visible here) card text and icons.

Lauren@tinylongwing· 20d

Foster dog Daisy gives me this ridiculous crooked smile every now and then lmao. Here she is modeling her cute new bib!

Photo of a medium sized tan dog with floppy ears sitting on a rug indoors. She has a crooked smile, slightly raised to the right side. She is wearing a red bib that says "adopt me"

Similar to the previous photo but with a more mormal smile, tongue slightly out, as Daisy looks toward the left side of the image

Lauren@tinylongwing· 20d

I'm going with the alt theme #ArtOfMotion for today's #BirdOfTheDay, featuring birds in motion but not in flight - such as this Common Loon sending water droplets flying as it flaps its wings on the surface of a lake. #SciArt #BirdArt 🪶

Illustration of a Common Loon in alternate plumage rising up out of misty blue water to flap its wings, sending spots of shimmering water in every direction. The bird is lit by early morning yellow sunlight from the front. It has a black back and wings, white belly, white spots on the back, a fine white-striped collar on the neck, and dark red eyes.

Lauren@tinylongwing· 24d

Today's #BirdOfTheDay from me is both a #ScreenFiller *and* a #migratory species, while I continue reposting previous Waymakers art! Here's a delightfully round Hooded Warbler. #SciArt #BirdArt 🪶

Illustration of a male Hooded Warbler, a shining yellow sunbeam of a bird in a dark leafy woodland. He is very round and very yellow, with a black "hood" of feathers encircling his face, and cute little pink feet.

Lauren@tinylongwing· 25d

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Corvidae, a Yellow-billed Magpie illustration of mine! Such stunning birds, these guys. #SciArt #BirdArt 🪶

Digital illustration of a Yellow-billed Magpie in a field of yellow grass. Like most magpies it has a black head, white belly, white wing patch, and iridescent blue wing feathers. This one also has a yellow beak and bare yellow skin around the eye. It stands in an alert posture. Done for eldestearth.bsky.social as thanks for their Waymakers donation to support immigrant kids in the US.

Lauren@tinylongwing· 29d

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #OpenBeaks, this Grasshopper Sparrow belting out a big song for his tiny self! #SciArt #BirdArt 🪶

Digital illustration of a singing Grasshopper Sparrow perched on a twig over a (blurred) grassy field. He has his beak wide open to the sky. The bird is a soft pale gray-brown overall with a bright yellow eyebrow. Done as a thank you for a Waymakers donation to support immigrant children's rights in the US.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jul 10

Ooh someone wants to meet him! Cross your fingers Clyde finds his forever home, he deserves it. He's been such a perfect houseguest!

Photo of Clyde the dog with a big smile on his face. He is sitting upright on a carpeted floor. My hand is near him because if I am not petting him he is demanding pets so it was the only way to get him to sit still and stop wiggling for a second.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jul 10

For #BirdOfTheDay, I actually don't have many birds perched on rocks I can show... How about a bird perched in front of the #Rocky Mountains! This singing Townsend's Warbler was done for the latest season of @songbirding.com , go have a listen. #BirdArt #SciArt 🪶

Digital illustration of a singing male Townsend's Warbler perched high at the very tip of a conifer. He is colored in bold yellow, black, and white, with his beak open in song, and stands out bright and colorful against the cool blue sky and the jagged slopes of the Rocky Mountains in the background.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jul 9

I am fostering the sweetest dog for a few days to give him a break from shelter life. This is Clyde - his sister and BFF Bonnie was already adopted. Hopefully Clyde finds a home soon himself! ws.petango.com/webservices/...

Photo of a big brown and white mutt with a happy smile on his face. He is sitting outdoors by a big yarrow plant with yellow flowers.

Photo of the same big cheerful dog sleeping in a sunbeam on the carpet indoors. He is on his side with his eyes closed. Not pictured: his wagging tail

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jul 7

The #BirdoftheDay theme is #orange, like this American Kestrel perched in the nice warm light of a sunset. #BirdArt #SciArt 🪶

Illustration of a male American Kestrel perched on the dead stalk of a sunflower, golden and dry. He fans his rufous tail as he sits alert and watchful, head extended, as if looking for prey. He has a blue-gray brow with a dark reddish crown, white cheeks with black vertical bars, and lightly spotted orange and cream belly. Behind him is blue sky and the blurred remains of more dried sunflowers.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jul 5

Man the Marianas are just having one hell of a rough year. Going to be a real weird return when I get back to my field sites on Rota. For those of you who are there right now, stay safe and good luck.

Screenshot from zoom.earth of Super Typhoon Bavi on its approach directly over the island of Rota with an eye larger than the island itself. Currently the winds are registering at ~180 mph and will sustain that peak intensity the entire duration as the storm passes over the Marianas.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jun 25

Get in here we're cormorantposting!!!

Digital black and white sketch of a group of Double-crested Cormorants. Most of the birds are simple low-detail silhouettes except for the two in the foreground, standing with their long hooked beaks slightly raised as they look around the colony.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jun 24

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 (or many many crabs perhaps!)

Coenobita perlatus (Strawberry hermit crab) party after cleaning out an opened coconut someone left on the beach. At least nine fist-sized crabs here are all scurrying around, checking for scraps. Their bright red carapaces contrast with the cream-colored sand and green-tinted turban shells on their abdomens.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jun 24

ok ok ok please enjoy my air plant some more haha (I assume this was the one you meant?)

Air plant in bloom. The small palm-sized plant with its spiky leaves is a bright blush pink, with two long purple tube-shaped flowers emerging from the top.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jun 24

Updated my shop! Which I am terrible about reminding people of its existence. There's a big INPRNT sale right now too (there's always a sale, don't buy if there's not a sale). Two collections, for ease of finding birds / #SciArt vs #LordHuron fanart: www.inprnt.com/collections/...

Screencap of six thumbnails of recently-uploaded art, including birds and Lord Huron fanart. The prices are reduced 30% off because INPRNT is doing a sale as usual.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jun 9

A commission for a #LordHuron fan project! Check out my illustration based on the Cosmic Selector tour backdrop to go with this cleaned up studio-style recording of Frozen Pines as it's been played live on this tour. Umbra put tons of work into splicing audio together from shows! 🎨 #fanart

Digital illustration of a dark forest lit with glowing blue light from behind. Beams of light pierce through the branches. The forest floor is soft and covered in shrubs, ferns and moss.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jun 2

This #BirdOfTheDay is certainly #HiddenInPlainSight - the well-camouflaged Great Eared Nightjar, tucked away in the leaf litter in a forest in Vietnam. That jungle cat has very little hope of finding it! Done for @northstargames.bsky.social 's Nature, Flight expansion. 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Digital illustration of a Great Eared Nightjar, a nocturnal bird with cryptic tan and brown feathers that make for good camouflage against the ground where it rests during the day. Mossy tree trunks and tropical foliage help to hide it from the keen-eyed jungle cat in the background of the image, which stalks toward the viewer with a paw paused mid-step.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Jun 1

Fiery-throated Hummingbirds come naturally dressed for #pride month! 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Digital illustration of a Fiery-throated Hummingbird perched on a branch with bright orange sunset colors behind. The hummingbird is a full rainbow of vivid colors - blue cap, green flanks, blue breast spot, and a bright red-orange throat. Illustration for @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social for their donation to The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights.

Lauren@tinylongwing· May 29

Runner up choice is them just being real cute together.

Same birds as the above photo in a different part of the same tree, which has more green leafy branches crossing the image. The såli are on the lower left, facing each other with heads bowed, perched side by side.

Lauren@tinylongwing· May 29

Actually for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #NegativeSpace I will actually share a photo, since I don't have many illustrations that fit. But I do quite like some of the pics from this old series of a pair of såli interacting in a flame tree on Saipan. 🪶 📷

Photo of a pair of såli (Micronesian Starling) on the branches of a flame tree over a big blue cloudless sky. The female, below, looks like she's waving at the male, above, with one foot. The birds are jet black with yellow eyes, though the female is slightly smaller and duller in color than the male. The tree has broad fern-like green leaves, and an explosion of colorful red flowers frame the top of the image.

Lauren@tinylongwing· May 28

Sweet! I love that today's #BirdOfTheDay is a taxonomic theme. #Podicipedidae are the grebes, which are sorely underrepresented in my art folder, but I do still love this old sketch of an Eared Grebe from my #BirdABCs. Maybe this year's Waymakers requests will include a grebe?? 🙏 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Lauren@tinylongwing· May 27

Today's #BirdoftheDay is all about #texture - something I really enjoy capturing in my art, such as with this quick painting of a White-breasted Nuthatch creeping down a fuzzy lichen-covered branch. 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Illustration of a White-breasted Nuthatch creeping downward along a lichen-covered branch. This small bird has a pointy little upturned bill, white face and breast that fades to chestnut on the flanks, a charcoal gray cap and blue-gray back. Dappled sunlight illuminates its back half. For Yardwatcher (ko-fi/reddit).

Lauren@tinylongwing· May 1

I'm so pleased I can finally share my Antarctic Imperial Cormorant illustration for #PolarLights! This was a bird I knew little about before, but I quickly fell in love with their incredible colors and how they contrast against the vivid blue & white of the Antarctic landscape. 🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt 🪶

Digital illustration showing an Antarctic Imperial Cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps bransfieldensis) in the foreground, with multiple others in the more distant background. This sleek black and white bird has a vivid blue eyering and bright orange caruncle over the bill during the breeding season. Its stout hooked bill is ideal for catching fish, and its slight shaggy crest is relaxed, not raised. The sky is a deep blue, reflected in the water, while the cormorants rest on and fly past blocks of ice, crumbling rocks, and a tall snowy mountain.

Lauren@tinylongwing· May 1

The local Tricolored are back in force! All I have for a camera is my phone so these are just excitement photos, not professional pics, haha. Around 200 today with females in their own little flocks carrying grass for nests. You all can celebrate warblers out east, this is what I look forward to! 🪶

Digibin photo of last season's dry cattails with two male Tricolored Blackbirds, showing the deep maroon epaulette bordered with white.

Similar photo of one male, with his right side facing us for a good look at the epaulette coloration

A wider view of a lot of Tricolored Blackbirds perched in thr cattails.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Apr 30

Ahh it's not too late! Last day of #InverteFest this month. I've been swamped, but I wanted to get in here if I could with some of the invertebrates (and a toad) I illustrated last year for BLM interpretive signs based around a southeast Oregon desert pond, a small oasis. #SciArt 🎨 🦋🐝

Tight cropped detail of a cattail at the edge of a pond with a dragonfly perched on it. This large dragonfly, an eight-spotted skimmer, has white wings with thick black bands and spots across them, a black body with yellow accents, and deep ruby red eyes.

Detail of life at the edge of a desert pond. A monarch butterfly perches on showy milkweed (A. speciosa), while a large Nevada bumble bee hovers near another blossom. Down below, a Great Basin spadefoot toad stays cool in the shade of the broad green leaves.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Apr 29

The collared dove pair in my bird bath are way too cute 🪶

Photo of two Eurasian Collared-doves sitting on the rim of a bird bath. The male, left, leans toward the female with his beak open to allopreen.

Same two doves, same bird bath, seconds later as the female tips her head and squints as if relaxed or enjoying while the male preens the top of her head.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Apr 27

Any of you out there ever had your #PassportPhoto turn out like this #BirdoftheDay? 😭 #BirdArt #SciArt

Digital sketch of a Cooper's Hawk bust looking directly at you with head tipped upward, making those big round fierce eyes instead seem pretty comical.

Lauren@tinylongwing· Apr 23

This is such an incredible collaboration, and I can't wait to dig in! Here's the piece I contributed alongside @delightmonster.bsky.social 's gorgeous speculative fiction piece about corals, anthropogenic sea level rise, and consequences. 🎨 #SciArt #InverteFest

Illustration of an underwater view of Miami, implying future fantastically dramatic sea level rise. Tall skyscrapers are barely visible through blue water, rays of sunlight, and coral crusts, while in the foreground, overpasses and walkways are covered in colorful coral reef and visited by various small fish. An old highway sign on the overpass reads "Miami Aquarium Next Right".

Lauren@tinylongwing· Apr 23

The #BirdOfTheDay prompt involves insectivory. I illustrated this nosa' luta (Rota White-Eye) foraging on caterpillars on a trongkon guåfi (Guam Fire Tree) for @instbirdpop.bsky.social to show off some of the endangered species interactions in our Tropical MAPS work on Rota. #SciArt #BirdArt