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Lex / Cranes / Arian

@illgottencranes.bsky.social

Artsy biologist guy, newly PhD, queer immigrant 🇺🇸->🇳🇴 Limited typing. No genAI. He/him okay, prefer e/em or xe/xyr (any spelling!) 🏳️‍⚧️

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rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · 39m ago

Day 5 - Scarlet Macaw #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #Birdart

Marker drawing of a scarlet macaw looking up at the viewer. Its tail is twisted to fit into the square picture. There are stars, berries, and sparkles around the macaw.

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 1h ago

I'm a day late, but I wasn't going to skip this one! My take on a common bronzewing from David's photo selection for #AvianAugust day 4, enjoying the rain. 🩵 Gouache and mica watercolor painting, postcard-sized. Shimmer video below! #BirdArt #SciArt #AvianAugust2026 #TraditionalArt

A painting of a common bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera), a small dove or pigeon with mainly brown feathers and bright iridescent patches on its wings. The dove in the painting is ruffled up and bathing in the rain. The wing patches are painted with shiny mica pigments and catch the light.

David C. Simon@davidcsimon.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you need reference photos of Common Bronzewings for #AvianAugust 2026 then you're welcome to these. Credit/attribution welcome, but I mainly just want to see what you make with them :)

David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you need reference photos of Common Bronzewings for #AvianAugust 2026 then you're welcome to these. Credit/attribution welcome, but I mainly just want to see what you make with them :)

Meesh@cookiedoves.bsky.social · last mo.

✨ #AvianAugust 2026!!!

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Flame bowerbird (Sericulus ardens) male for #AvianAugust day 3. Practicing with gouache paint, which is supposed to have a MATTE finish, so it is extra annoying that the turquoise is glossy and made this almost impossible to photograph 😬 #BirdArt #SciArt #AvianAugust2026 #TraditionalArt

A bird with a yellow body, red head, and black wings and tail clutches a blue berry while fanning his wing in front of a purple bower. The painting is stylized to be somewhat more geometric than reality.

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Succumbed to temptation for #AvianAugust day 2, the rainbow-bearded thornbill (Chalcostigma herrani), going WAY more detailed than planned. 👀 First time using these neon colors! 🌈 Postcard-sized #watercolor. #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt #SciArt #TraditionalArt #Hummingbird

A watercolour painting of a little hummingbird clinging to a horsetail stem, with complex purple/green/blue colors on the body and a brilliant crest and beard painted in bright rainbow colors. Also utilizing the White Gouache of Insufficient Planning!

Alan Martin @alanmartin-art.bsky.social · 3d ago

Day 1: Northern Lapwing #AvianAugust Playing catchup already 🙄 He looks worried because he knew the pen I was using was too thick for hatching 😞 #birds #BirdArt #nature #art

Photograph of a sketchbook painting of a Northern Lapwing. Its cartooned, so some exaggerated features and proportions. Its has a scratchy ink outline and is coloured with watercolour in various shades of blue, teal and brown with a short row of bright pink feathers on its wing.

rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · 3d ago

Day 2 - Rainbow-Bearded Thornbill #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt

Marker drawing of a rainbow-bearded thornbill perched on a branch with lime green leaves and pink tips. More branches twist around in the background.

Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 4d ago

July rewind ⏪

Female Purple Martins battle for a nesting cavity

Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 4d ago

An Eastern Tiger Butterfly arrives at a Mexican Sunflower.

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here's the bonus shimmer video of today's #AvianAugust #BirdArt!

Lex / Cranes / Arian@illgottencranes.bsky.social · 4d ago

Day 1 of #AvianAugust! Today is the northern lapwing ("vipe" in 🇳🇴 ), which has a wonderful crest. Crest is best! Watercolor, 11x11 cm. The wing patch is painted with shimmery mica colors. #AvianAugust2026 #BirdArt #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Watercolour painting of a wading bird with a long cute crest and a shimmery iridescent wing. The northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 4d ago

Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦@secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 6d ago

A few stills from tonight’s sunset taken from the kayak. I’m so glad I got out for a paddle tonight.

Swirls of orange and yellow clouds stretch across the sky in a diagonal running from lower left to upper right. Their fiery glow is reflected in the gently ripple water below. What isn’t lit up by the sunset is various shades of blue and purple.

A triangle of fiery, orange and yellow is the sunset and it’s reflection in the water below. Off to the left is the dark blue bow of a kayak floating in the water, only slightly lit up by the colourful display.

David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 5d ago

I stood still in my garden for over an hour today photographing Eastern Spinebills in our cherry tree. #birds

Photograph of an Eastern Spinebill in a cherry tree drinking from a bright pink flower. The bird is a small honeyeater in black, white, grey, rust, and fawn, with bright red eyes and a long, curved bill. It is hanging upside down as it drinks, but has one eye facing the viewer (and hilighted by the sun). This Spinebill is most likely a male judging by the subtle blue/green irridescent feathers on the crown of its black head.

Same subjects, but a different different Spinebill in a different part of the tree. This bird is perched on a bare branch and looking about, searching for danger (or insects to snack on, maybe?). This bird is most likely a female, judging by the duller grey/brown feathers on its crown.

Same subjects, different angle and possibly a different Spinebill again (I counted at least three, but they were hard to keep track of). Possibly another male, but the irridescence is hard to see at this angle. It is close enough to the viewer that there's a noticeably shallow depth of field with the bird's bright red eye as the focal point.

David R. Banos @davidrbanos.bsky.social · 7d ago

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Ethics first, research second. One of the two articles found to involve research misconduct due to gross negligence at Oslo University Hospital has now been retracted. The second will follow shortly.

<em>Acta Paediatrica</em> | Paediatrics Journal | Wiley Online Library

RETRACTION: C. B. Nyquist, L. Torgersen, L. W. David, T. H. Diseth, K. Gulbrandsen, and A. Waehre, “Treatment Trajectories among Children and Adolescents Referred to the Norwegian National Center fo.....

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 6d ago

This might be the youngest Sandhill Crane at the park right now. The other colts are about two to three times the size of this one. This young one still has plenty of time before migration (and some of the local cranes won't migrate and will overwinter.)

Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 7d ago

Weevils!

A Curculio weevil on a sheet from above. It's a wonderfully besnooted golden-brown beetle with thick legs and large feet. Its snout is long, narrow, and curved downward, and elbowed antennae emerge about halfway along its length.

Ainsley S@americanbeetles.bsky.social · 7d ago

It never isn’t Weevil Wednesday

Festive array of unsorted entimine weevils, from our fine collection of unsorted weevils

Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm feeling literal today, so my #multicoloured #birdoftheday contribution is the Multicolored Tanager at La Minga Ecolodge #Colombia #tanagers #birds

Colorful bird with a yellow head, green wings, and turquoise-blue chest perched on a branch.

David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 7d ago

Striated Thornbill hunting for bugs in our garden. #birds

Photo of a very small passerine holding onto the edge of a hanging leaf, leaning towards the leaf with its beak slightly open. The bird is shades of brown and black with white and black striations on its face and breast.

Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 6d ago

With highly-pathogenic avian influenza now in NZ, we're taking steps to protect #kakapo and #takahe by vaccinating against the disease, following a successful trial. We're aiming for ~90 kākāpō and 100 takahē in an initial phase to protect the most valuable birds/sites. #conservation #birds

A kākāpō amongst bushes on the ground, in day time. Credit: Andrew Digby

A takahē on a nest with two eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's almost time!!

Meesh@cookiedoves.bsky.social · last mo.

✨ #AvianAugust 2026!!!

Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 6d ago

So angry. Fiery-throated Hummingbird at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica #hummingbirds #birds #nature

Green hummingbird perched on a branch with its bill open

Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 7d ago

I've had to be creative with enrichment for this crane, who has to spend a lot of time prone while recovering from surgery. On top of more typical options, I let him watch Norwegian slow TV today which he seemed to enjoy. He can watch or not and chose to watch, so apparently its crane-approved. 📺

A sandhill crane colt laying on a netted frame with a bucket of water and floating food in front of him

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · last wk.

I am now a Norwegian citizen, as well as a PhD! 🎉🇳🇴

Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Virginia Rail floofs! These chicks look to be newly hatched, 2-3 days old. They are about the size of a ping-pong ball.

David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 2w ago

CREST!!!!!!!! #birds

Photo of a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo against a blue sky framing the bird's crest. The crest is partly raised with tapering yellow feathers fanned out like flowers. It is side lite by the sun, but a shadow is across the bird's head, meaning that the sunlit feathers are rich and vibrant against a nearly black head.

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Dragoon Navy Issue, one of the newer ships in @eveonline.com. This is a tanky fit for waiting for solo opponents in a faction warfare plex, then holding them with neuts and tackle: eveworkbench.com/fit/eb280e14... #EVEonline #JustCreators @justabout.com

A screenshot from EVE Online of a Dragoon Navy Issue against a nebula.

Lex / Cranes / Arian @illgottencranes.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Forgia O'keeffe's Atron Pilot I" - for a @justabout.com contest to create @eveonline.com fanart in the style of a famous artist. Also a great way to push your creative comfort zone! Oil pastel trying to look like oil paint, on 30x40 paper. #EVEonline #JustCreators @ccpgames.com #SciFiArt

A lusciously smooth oil pastel drawing of an Atron from the game EVE Online, in a style reminiscent of Georgia O'keeffe. The ship is drawn in hues of green, brown, blue, and purple, with focus on the curious glowing aperture at the front of the ship. The background consists of rippling waves of blue-black.

Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Red-headed Woodpecker passing by overhead. Love their brilliant red noggins ♥️

Jed Taylor @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Deinonychus returns! A small number of these hand-painted models made by @rubrennanart.bsky.social and myself will be available at #DinoConUK this weekend. 1:16 and 1:10 scale.

Old Paul @manticore-aw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Still one of my favourite paintings I did for my wife's birthday in 2019 #octopus #acrylics

A large red octopus approaches you underwater, lit from the left