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Beau only has two modes

people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

thats not the word I meant to use

None of these words are in the bible.

au contraire, mon ami

dont weird pussy, that's woke stale. penis absolute.

i’m sorry cock is in the bible?

Matthew 26:34 KJV

Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

huh i didn’t know edging was in the bible either

Now that my entire Carolina Parakeet series has been shared, I can finally do a post with ALL of them! So, here is my intended exhibition display layout for the series (I intend for them to be hung 'salon style', in stacked tiers). The title of the full series is Parakeet Lost.

From top left (click the title for more information):

All pieces are traditional gouache on paper, and 18x24 inches (with the exception of Memory Knot, which is 13x18").

I’m very pleased to announce that Parakeet Lost is now an award-winner, having received recognition as First Runner-Up in the category of Top Presentation (Undergraduate) at the KSU Symposium of Student Scholars! 🥹 I hope that this, along with the successful display at NCUR, will be another stepping stone in the journey towards getting my work published.

Between extinct and critically endangered, a small handful of organisms exist in the limbo of "extinct in the wild", a conservation status which is applied to organisms no longer existing in their natural habitat, but continue on in human care (typically in captive-breeding programs seeking to re-establish wild populations in the future). There are only 5 bird species under this designation, the first of which is the Alagoas curassow (Mitu mitu). These fowl were once found in northeastern Brazil.

Alagoas curassows are large Cracids with primarily dark blue-purple plumage accented by red legs and beaks. Their natural range includes the wet forests of the Alagoas and Pernambuco states of northeast Brazil, where they would forage on a variety of fruits.

As with the Alagoas foliage gleaner, habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation are the likely drivers of the curassows extinction in the wild, as well as hunting for culinary consumption. In 1979, Pedro Nardelli captured 5 individuals and transported them to a captive breeding program in Rio de Janeiro. Just two years later, the forest he had taken the birds from was razed to build a sugar and ethanol plant. At this point, the curassow was extinct in the wild, with the captive population being the only known survivors.

As breeding efforts began, Fernando Pinta founded the Atlantic Forest Preservation Institute to restore natural habitats within the range of the curassow. The breeding program raised the population to 130, and as of this year, there will be a dozen individuals re-released back into their wild habitat. The released individuals are being heavily tracked and monitored, but hopefully in the near future the population will be established enough for the Alagoas curassow to move its conservation status in the right direction.

“Patches” 1997-1999

Drawing rainbow trout in my diary <3

little gentlemen

she has a flower for you!

here is her matching otter friend!

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phrasing of this is taking me out

Harder to crucify a being with eight legs

#spider Jesus died on the asterisk for our sins

you can’t just leave this in the tags

Insult to injury

The birds of America - John James Audubon - 1856 - via e-rara