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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"As the raven first pecks out the eyes, so the devil first destroys the ability to judge correctly, leaving the mind open to attack" (bestiary.ca). Referring to ravens plucking the eyes of corpses out to eat the brains. #MedievalMay Day 25 #MedievalBestiary #Birds #BirdArt

A hand holding a small sketchbook showing a drawing of a raven in ink, with gothic type that says "raven" to the upper right of the bird.

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I really thought this was funny guys

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

One of my favorite hoodies and it always gets compliments! So cozy too

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Monarch butterflies journey thousands of miles across multiple generations, symbolizing new beginnings and the right we all have to move freely. We must stand with immigrants!! 🧡

An illustration of three flying monarch butterflies in various poses. They are bright orange butterflies with black wing veins and small white dotted markings on the edge of the wings. Black handwritten text reads “Migration is Magnificent”

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I got this finished mug back yesterday #BirdArt Some issues with the glaze (my fault) but overall super proud of it.

hand holding a pottery mug with a black necked stilt on it

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The disability is being disabling, hence the ongoing art dry spell here

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Happy Pride Month! You know who doesn't change their brand image to rainbow just for June? Ctenophores. They make their gay little rainbows all year. It's a Pride parade in the ocean every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 366 every four years. 🦑🐙

A little Euplokamis dunlapae cteno with its tentacles out and loose, making some little rainbows with its ctenes for pride.

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

hand of glory, my fav

illustration of a hand of glory with a snake running through the fingers. Images of a knife and match are worked into the illustration through overlapping color.

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mushy @mushbeast.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

happy pride month to my fellow queer birders 🌈

a digital drawing of a black capped chickadee surrounded by leaves. the text reads “queer birder” which refers to the gay/queer community of bird watchers! in a supportive silly way, of course.

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Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

nature is for EVERYONE! 🏳️‍🌈

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The name's Ironclad. Diabolical Ironclad.

A diabolical ironclad beetle on some rocky ground with dry grass

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The name's Ironclad. Diabolical Ironclad.

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Almost forgot to post the final birds, so you're getting three at once. #MedievalMay days 29, 30 and 31 are titmouse, vulture, and woodpecker. Thanks for following along with this challenge! It was fun and the first art challenge I've completed in full. #Birds #BirdArt #MedievalBestiary #Medieval

Hand holding a small sketchbook showing a drawing of an oak titmouse on a branch with a calligraphy letter T to the upper right.

A hand holding a small sketchbook showing a drawing of a turkey vulture looking to the viewer's right and holding a severed human foot in its beak.

A hand holding a small sketchbook showing a drawing of an acorn woodpecker with an acorn in its beak, on the side of a tree that is way too small in comparison to the bird and looks like broccoli.

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

#MedievalMay Days 27 & 28 - Swallow and thrush. The barn swallow and hermit thrush. Only three more birds to go! #Birds #BirdArt #MedievalArt #MedievalBestiary

A hand holding up a small sketchbook showing side by side ink and watercolor drawings of a barn swallow in flight in a gilded frame and a hermit thrush sitting on a trifecta of oak leaves and acorns.

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Starling - "A bird with stars on its feathers" (bestiary.ca) The European starling was introduced to North America in the 1890s by some people who were way too into Shakespeare. #MedievalMay Day 26 #Birds #BirdArt #MedievalBestiary

A hand holding up a small sketchbook to show an ink and watercolor drawing of a small blackish purple-ish bird with white dash markings across its feathers like stars. Its bill is bright yellow and its surrounded by a square filled in with metallic bronze watercolor. A stylized script letter S is above it to the left.

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Q is for Quail for #MedievalMay day 24 (catching up again, I took the weekend off). This is a little lady California quail. I might turn these into an alphabet zine when the month is over. #Birds #BirdArt #MedievalBestiary

A hand holding a small sketchbook so you can see the right hand page which has an ink line drawing of a female California quail, a small brown bird with white horizontal markings on its breast and sides and a protruding feather on its brow that sticks straight out. The bird is colored with brown watercolor. There's a capital letter Q to its upper right.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/05/2025

Just dropped these two new sticker friends for you to take home! In the shop now. -> rippleinthewild.etsy.com #Birds #BirdArt #Stickers

Close up American avocet bird sticker on a desk next to a plant

Close up black-crowned night heron bird sticker on a desk next to a plant.

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Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Plover - "A bird that lives on nothing but air" (bestiary.ca) #MedievalMay #Birds #BirdArt #MedievalArt #SnowyPlover

Close up of a hand holding a small sketchbook with a drawing of a small black, grey and white bird, the snowy plover. The bird is striding towards the right, walking over a squiggly line and some little pebbles that look like a sandy beach. All within a rectangle with a blue sky. There is a single disconnected line on the top and two sides of the rectangle. At the bottom in gothic typography is the word "plover"

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Just dropped these two new sticker friends for you to take home! In the shop now. -> rippleinthewild.etsy.com #Birds #BirdArt #Stickers

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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 22/05/2025

I rely on Medicaid coverage for all my healthcare, including hrt. Please contact your senators and tell them to oppose this bill. I know it feels like shouting into the void sometimes but it matters to try.

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🚨 The US House of Reps have now PASSED their budget bill that includes a BAN on Gender Affirming Care for Medicaid for ALL AGES. This bill now goes to the Senate where it’s likely to pass. Call your Senators!

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy World Goth Day! It is a common misconception that chickens can't be goth, but Lavinia enjoys Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, and Victorian poems about beautiful women dying of consumption.

Photo of a striking black chicken with red comb and wattle.

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Today's bird is the pheasant. Phasianus colchicus, the ring-necked pheasant. A bird introduced to the U.S. from Asia in the 1880s. Side note, I love the way trees are drawn in medieval manuscripts. #MedievalMay #BirdArt #Birds #Pheasant #MedievalBestiary

A hand holding up a small sketchbook horizontally so you can see a drawing of a ring-necked pheasant, a brightly colored brown and red bird with a blue head and red eye ring. Behind it are drawn some stylized grass and trees that look like wavy broccoli.

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Pelican - "A bird that revives its dead young with its own blood" (bestiary.ca). Hardcore! Not convinced that a pelican in the middle ages was what we call a pelican today, as none of the birds under pelican remotely resemble pelicans. Day 21 #MedievalMay #BirdArt #MedievalArt #Birds #BrownPelican

A hand holding up a small sketchbook horizontally so you can see one page with an ink line drawing of a brown pelican, a large sea bird with a big bill, in flight, looking pretty funny with an extra long neck and wide eye. It's drawn partially inside a rectangle with the tips of its wings and feet breaking the border. The rectangle has a pattern of diamonds in it with dots in the center of each and is colored in turquoise.

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

"The owl haunts ruins and flies only at night; preferring to live in darkness it hides from the light" (bestiary.ca) Oof, there's a lot going on with owl symbolism in medieval Christianity and it's not pretty. #MedievalMay #BirdArt #GreatHornedOwl #Birds #MedievalArt #Bestiary

A hand holding a small sketchbook to show the left hand page with a stylized black ink drawing of a great horned owl, a bird with a round head and tufty ears and big yellow eyes. The bird is colored in watercolor and is inside a double walled rectangle, its feet extend below the bottom of the rectangle.

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Morgan @rippleinthewild.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Test print of a new block ft. the bandaid from carving out a chunk of my finger. Needs a few touch ups but I like it. #Birds #BlackNeckedStilt #LinoPrint

A left hand holding up a 6 by 8 inch horizontal piece of white paper with a print of two black and white birds with red eyes and long, slender pink legs in flight over some grass. The background is a white wall and the hand has a bandaid on the index finger because the artist is a dingus.

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"Some authorities say the osprey has one clawed foot for seizing prey, and one webbed foot for swimming" (bestiary.ca) I recreated this masterpiece for you, but forgot to give it one webbed foot. #MedievalMay #MedievalArt #Birds #BirdArt #Osprey #MedievalManuscripts

A hand holding up a small sketchbook so you can see the right hand page. The left page of the sketchbook is cut off by the edge of the photo. On the page there is a drawing of an osprey diving down towards some wavy lines (water) and fish, its wings are tucked in and pointing back so they almost form a triangle behind the bird. Gothic script at the top says "osprey"

A drawing from a medieval manuscript showing an osprey diving straight down towards some wavy lines and fish meant to represent water. The osprey has one clawed foot and one webbed foot and its eye is very wide and round with a small pupil. It looks like it is just hurtling towards the water face first. Image is in the public domain, courtesy of the British LIbrary

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 15/05/2025

Gonna transfer some good birds to some lino blocks. Pray for my hands

Looking down onto a desk with a scattered tracing paper squares with pencil tracings of bird drawings

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A manuscript thread for birders in particular! Last year I wrote a post showcasing all the beautiful illuminated #birds in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Bodl.264, but there were many I couldn't identify. Maybe a group effort can help fill the gaps? 🧵 majnouna.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus

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Dawn Chorus

Medieval birds to gladden the heart

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Nightjar - "A bird that sucks milk from the udders of goats" (bestiary.ca) Also called goatsuckers, part of a very old misunderstanding (?) that they would drink goats milk directly from the goat. They actually eat insects. #MedievalMay #BirdArt #Birds #CommonPoorwill #MedievalArt

A hand holding a small sketchbook turned horizontally to show an ink and watercolor drawing of a small round bird with a big eye, surrounded by a blue background with gold dots and a black line border.

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Catching up again. Day 17 of #MedievalMay was Merlin. I find the hardest ones to draw are where the depictions in medieval manuscripts deviate so much from what the actual bird looks like. It's hard to find a middle ground. #BirdArt #Birds #MedievalArt #MedievalEurope #Merlin

A hand holding open a small sketchbook to show two side by side drawings in black ink of a type of falcon called a merlin. The left drawing is a merlin perched on a small ball, the right drawing is a merlin coming down to land with its wings out and feet outstretched in front of it.

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