The Art of Roxanne Schrank
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I mostly draw birds and other animals. Here you'll find random art dumps, studies, and whatever else I find interesting.
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Things I ♥: Science (especially biology related stuff), scientific illustration, birding, travel, camping, coffee, tea, German & Latin language, industrial music, the color purple
Winternacht on deviantArt
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Robotic Willie Wagtail by *AnthonyHearsey
Daily Deviation 5/10/13
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You have no fucking idea how much I’m crushing on Smiffy’s sexy beard. I think this ginger miracle needs some more goddamn appreciation.
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Doodled a floaty cormorant head today!
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
The awesomeness that is the Chimney Swift. This is a really fast doodle, sorry. Just trying to get back on track!
Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) feather study.
Sizes not to scale.
Matilda’s Horned Viper
Such a beautiful discovery! I adore vipers.
Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber
The amber-preserved feathers still contain some colors and reveal the dinosaurs came in a range of hues.
(August 31, 2011) A bird specimen that sat in a drawer at the Smithsonian for nearly 50 years has been revealed to be a totally new species to science, the first in the United States for 37 years.
How safe is mist netting? First large-scale study into bird-capture technique finds little risk to birds
Capturing birds in mist nets is one of the most common research methods in field ornithology, but until now, the risks mist nets pose to birds were largely unknown.
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/News/release.cfm?rid=400
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Necedah National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) and the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) are celebrating another success in efforts to reintroduce a wild migratory whooping crane population in eastern North America. Three whooping crane chicks hatched this week at Necedah NWR in central Wisconsin. The first chick to hatch this season was the offspring of wild whooping crane W1-06. W1-06 was hatched and raised in 2006 on Necedah NWR and is the first wild offspring from the eastern whooping crane reintroduction project started more than a decade ago.
Chicagoans do not have to venture to the grand halls of the Field Museum to study the fascinating ancient natural history of the Windy City. They simply need to look out their windows or walk down their front steps.
The large stone slabs that form the windowsills and front steps of many turn-of-the-20th-century homes and apartment buildings in Chicago are made of limestone, a rock that forms from the skeletons of ocean-dwelling animals. These rocks also contain fossils.
