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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On the bird mugs I painted te korowai o Mihiwaka, the cloak/forest of the Orokonui Valley which is where these native birds live. #orokonui #aotearoa #birdart #sciart #mug #handmade

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Playing with a sgraffito style using one of my current favorite subjects, an Australian gannet! I love eating off handmade plates and especially so when they gave birds on them.🪶 #birdart #birdsofbluesky #art #ceramics #sgraffito #gannet

Ceramic plate with a sgrafito style black ad white gannet standing on a rocky bluff by the ocean with a rock stack behind it.

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here I've painted the rare plants of Central Otago saline habitats. These plants have adapted to these harsh soils, high heat, and cold winters. They support hundreds of smaller animals like moths and butterflies, beetles and skinks. #aotearoa #NewZealand #sciart #herps #plantsky #bugsky

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Still enjoying my memories of seeing the Australasian gannet colony at Muriwai in Aotearoa New Zealand. They certainly don't need humans making things harder for them though hunting while avian flu threatens them. #Gannet #birdsofbluesky #SciArt #Birds #charcoal #drawing #BirdArt #AvianAugust2026

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Inspector Gannet making sure this stoat trap is set and baited to protect the colony from invasive ferrets, weasels, and stoats. #gannet #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #NewZealand #Aotearoa #seabirds #birdsofbluesky #photography #ocean #conservation

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#Orokonui snow day! Here's are our #takahē #whanau. Mom and her year old juveniles dote on one of 2 new chicks hatched only a few weeks ago. The juvs adore their baby siblings and enjoy feeding them grass and worms. The other chick is staying cozy in the tussocks with dad. #birds #NewZealand #nature

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#Snow day at #Orokonui Ecosanctuary! When the cold set in, this group of young #kākā gathered together to snack and have a chat at the viewing platform. #bird #conservation #parrot #wildlife #birding #Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZbirds #animals #Dunedin #endangeredspecies

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Otago green skinks in #Aotearoa #NZ appear to have close family ties for the first 3-4 years of life! Here are two baby #skinks with their older sibling who's probably 2.5-3 years old. #lizard #reptiles #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #Orokonui #conservation #wildlife #animals #NewZealand

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Korimako are a type of honeyeater endemic to #Aotearoa #NewZealand. Every spring when the kotukutuku (Fuchsia excorticata) blooms I see korimako with faces covered in the worlds only plant-kingdom's only bright blue pollen! #nature #birding #birds #nzbirds #birdsofbluesky #conservation #flowers

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Waimarie is one of 8 takahē living at #Orokonui Ecosanctuary, an one of only ~600 of her species! Takahē numbers plummeted to near-extinction in the South Island of #NZ in the 1940s. Large-scale invasive mammal trapping and predator-resistant fences are helping to bring them back! #birding #wildlife

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I just these these little guys are so neat. Check out how their eyes look open, even when they are closed due to some special eyelid scale trickery! #photography #herpetology #Orokonui #Nature #Aotearoa #NewZealand #lizard #ecology

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A sort video of those two in action. Your can see the male flicking his tongue - this can be a way to cool down in the heat, but is also a way to smell his mate's pheromones *mlem*. I have been watching these two for 3 summers and they have been amazing parents together. #Orokonui #herpetology #cute

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It's spring time in #Orokonui Ecosanctuary, and that means my favorite bonded pair of Otago green skinks are active again! Going on 9 years old, the female (green nose) has had a litter of two skinklets (not the technical term) with her long-term mate. #photography #herpetology #NewZealand #Science

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I've been super inspired by the glowy and colorful forest paintings by @mk-howling.bsky.social. I have a lot to practice and learn! #art #landscapeart #painting #digitalart #krita

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I'm trying out a digital stippling technique for botanical illustrations using one of my favorite PNW wildflowers, the understated and charming Pacific starflower (Lysimachia latifolia). #botanicalillustration #SciArt #scienceillustration #natureart #flower #PNW #wildflowers #botanicalart

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

While looking for #tīeke at #OrokonuiEcosanctuary, I saw many other inhabitants lucky to reside inside the protection of the mammal-resistant fence🪶. Here, a tauhou or silvereye was prying away the strippy bark of a kanuka, plucking insects hiding underneath. #Aotearoa #NewZealand #SciArt #birding

A tauhou rests on the trunk of a kanuka tree in-between stints of pulling bark away to eat insects underneath.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Yesterday I participated in a sanctuary-side survey for the recently released #tīeke at #OrokonuiEcosanctuary. We use a playback technique to draw in #birds to take note of their colored leg-bands. A curious miromiro also came by, wondering what the ruckus was about. #Aotearoa #NewZealand #SciArt

A tīeke, a black bird with a sharp beak and a brown back, faces left with its bright red mouth open as it calls "tīeke tīeke tīeke". Its colorful, identifying leg bands are clearly visible, making the photo useful for our survey records.

A tīeke, a black bird with a sharp beak and a brown back, faces right with its bright red mouth open as it calls "tīeke tīeke tīeke". the grey eye is alert and shining in the low winter light.

A miromiro, a small bird with a large black head, small pointed beak, and bright yellow belly perches on a dead, thorn-armoured gorse branch.

A miromiro, a small bird with a large black head, small pointed beak, and bright yellow belly perches lightly on a pale tree stump, with the blue sky in the background.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

More pieces from my workshops on botanical and natural science illustration techniques. All drawn from life and accurate to scale 1:1. A Fuchsia flower in colored pencil, a river stone in watercolor, and a feather🪶 in watercolor. #botanicalart #SciArt #scientificillustration #art #coloredpencil

Colored Pencil illustration of a pink fuchsia flower on white background

Watercolor painting of a disc-shaped river stone on white background.

Watercolor illustration of an orange and grey feather on a white background.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When takahē were discovered not to be extinct, conservationists had to learn to save them without much available information about their ecology. This illustration represents when alpine tussock grasslands were thought to be their preferred habitat. #Aotearoa #NewZealand #SciArt #Birds #digitalart

Takahe tussock grasslands where we thought was there preferred habitat before more data showed they prefer swamp and forest edge habitat. Two takahe tussle in the foreground while another watches them closeby and a fourth seems ambivalent in the background. An Australasian harrier hawk, or kahu, soars around looking for the now extinct flightless wrens. A New Zealand Pipit watches the tussle from the branches of a dead hebe.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

While visiting the aviary in the Dunedin Botanic Gardens a curious lori tried to taste my camera. Lorikeets have one of the strangest tongues in the bird world, with a brush like-tip that gathers pollen and nectar efficiently! #birding #birdart #anatomy #study #sciart #scientificillustration

Yellow bibbed Lori 3/4 view extended tongue anatomy.

All of the the three illustrations on one page with handwritten text anatomy labels

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A #treasuremap for my friend and award winning author John Egenes @jegenes.bsky.social for his new book, The Marfa Blues. So much fun to make a treasure map to fit in with the story! #fantasymap #map #illustration #bookmap #artsky

An illustration of a hand drawn treasure map written in Spanish on a rectangular piece of soft leather.

A close up of the map showing a detail of the canyons the treasure is hidden in.

A close up showing the rabbit cascades, illustrated with a rabbit beside some mountains.

Close up of las montañas de la muerte and the sierra cajon.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A book cover for my friend and award winning author John Egenes @jegenes.bsky.social of his new book, The Marfa Blues. You may have heard of John's last book, Man and Horse (or maybe you've seen it's cameo in the Barbie movie). Both are great reads so check them out! #bookcover #illustration #art

A book cover for the book: The Marfa Blues by John Egenes. The cover has a graphic illustration of a old western café with a sign on the awning saying Vera's cafe. A raven perches on the rooftop.

The cover has a graphic illustration of a old western café with a sign on the awning saying Vera's cafe. A raven perches on the rooftop. To the left, which is the back of the book, a silhouette of a cow on the horizon, casting a long shadow.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Tesyed out some lovely impasto brushes on #krita using a moko kakariki as my subject matter. #aotearoa #newzealand #gecko #sciart #animalart #reptile #painting

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The Wild Dunedin Festival of Nature put on an amazing Nature Dome event! It was a fantastic day to celebrate Dunedin's wildlife and help spread the word that you too can get connected to nature by visiting natural spaces nearby, like Orokonui Ecosanctuary! Thanks Marty Buyck for the lovely photos!

Me, a woman with long brown hair holding a kiwi plushie on from of a poster with a large kaka printed on it.

Me, a woman with long brown hair holds up a kiwi plushie like in the lion king, with a poster behind that says Orokonui Ecosanctuary

Me, a woman with long brown hair hild a tuatara plushie next to a kiwi plushie wearing a flower lei. In the background is a poster with a kaka on it.

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🪶 Today, more than 1/3 of the federal grant $$ we were relying on to finance our science & conservation work in 2025 is paused w/ no indication of when, or if, we will be able to access it again. Your tax-deductible donation helps us weather this period of uncertainty. birdpop.org/pages/do... 1/2

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Last year I helped out my sister with her ecological fieldwork in Oteake Conservation Park, Central Otago. The deep gullies between the scree slopes are hidden gems. The cold springs create microclimates for a diversity of rare plants, insects, and lizards. #reptiles #Oteake #Newzealand

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm sorry did I just tear up over this little fish? #anglerfish #deepsea #deepseacreature

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Fulfilling my dream of being a #wildlife #artist, I painted this for Tiaki Manioto (freshwater conservation group) to highlight some key natural features of the #Taieri River in Central #Otago. Freshwater muscles, Australasian #bittern, freshwater #invertebrates, and the upland bully (fish)

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Back when I was learning to use colored pencils to draw botanical subjects from life accurately and to scale. An oak leaf and English laurel leaf from the backyard, A poroporo flower, and a ripened apple. #botanicalart #SciArt #scientificillustration #art #coloredpencil

Colored pencil drawing of a brown oak leaf on the left and a green laurel leaf on the right on a white background.

Colored pencil drawing of a purple poroporo flower with a golden center of stamens on a white background

Colored pencil drawing of a red apple with a green mark and a crusty old leaf attached to it's cut stem.

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

When the sun shines on #Mopanui these young #Otago green skinks come out to sunbathe. Otago green #skinks are not well understood, but from recent observations they seem to cuddle to stay warm or to warm up.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Here's a wee article about a mural I painted on a utility cabinet to celebrate Aotearoa's unique wildlife and plants. It was a pleasure to work with the folks improving the habitat at Half-Mile reserve to creat a mural the community would appreciate. #SciArt www.codc.govt.nz/your-council...

Mural painting of a McCann's skink resting on a rock facing left with vines of flowering New Zealand Jasmine around it. The mural is on an electrical utility cabinet.

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Pearl @pearlbarry.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Last year I showed a scientific poster at the The Society for Research of Amphibians and Reptiles of New Zealand conference. This is a portrait of an Otago green skink, a threatened lizard that is endemic to the Otago region of NZ, which I used on my poster. #sciart

Digital illustration of a lizard with green scales on its snout, purple/black scales on its side, and a creamy underbelly resting on a thin branch with light blue berries and sparse green leaves.

Close up on the details of the face of the lizard

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