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That concludes the month of bird griffins!! Hope it helped introduce you to new birds 🫶 it was very fun painting them but also very upsetting to educate myself about some of them
Day 15, Socorro dove Extinct in the wild A formerly common bird in Socorro island, but it suddenly disappeared. Observations in 1957-1958 gave no indication that the population was declining, and the last sighting in the wild was in 1972.
Day 14, Blue-throated Hillstar Critically endangered (80-110 mature individuals, decreasing) This hummingbird wasn’t discovered until 2018. It lives in a small area in the páramos of southwestern Ecuador, where its habitat is being burnt for agriculture and further degraded by cattle grazing
Day 13, Regent honeyeater Critically endangered (350-400 mature individuals, decreasing) This Australian bird is affected by droughts and habitat loss. It's lost most of it (75%) to agricultural and residential expansion, and it’s suspected that more aggressive species have excluded it further
Day 12, Balearic shearwater Critically endangered (19,000 mature individuals, decreasing) The population declines at a rate of about 14% per year. This bird doesn’t begin breeding until 4-6 years of age and as such, adult mortality is its biggest threat
Day 11, Bali myna Critically endangered (fewer than 50* mature individuals, decreasing) Victim of illegal pouching for the cagebird trade since the 1990s. With the population critically low, genetic erosion, interspecific competition, natural predation, etc are some other threats the species faces
Day 10, Rusty-throated Parrotbill Least concern (stable. Via BirdLife International)
Day 8, Agami heron Near threatened (decreasing. Via BirdLife International)
Day 7, Oriental Bay-Owl Least concern (stable. Via BirdLife International)
Day 6, Horned guan Endangered (600-1,700 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)
Day 5, Lesser white-fronted goose Vulnerable (16,000-27,000 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)
Day 4, Visayan hornbill Endangered (1,200 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)
Day 3, Reeves's pheasant Vulnerable (2,500-9,999 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)
Day 2, Egyptian vulture Endangered (12,400-36,000 mature individuals, decreasing. Via IUCN)
This is one of my favorites, so I'm surprised I hadn't posted it here yet Study of a Wolf Conservation Center video, that I painted sometime in 2022
I haven't opened this app in months, i didn't expect all the notifications 🫣 hello everyone Since you guys seemed to like my other bird griffin post, here's some recent bullfinch mini griffins 🪶
