Birds In The Wilderness V W X Swap/ATCs/Open Media/Due Date: October 19, 2026

SageSparrow said:
Two done. I’m so rusty! Haven’t drawn in years.
Van Hasselt’s Sunbird (top), and the Australian Weebill, drawn life size. I’m working with Pigma micron pens and Prismacolor pencils. I’m going to do a bit more to the Weebill, it just needs to rest now.
It’s so nice drawing again, and I love birds, I’m a birder with almost 900 life species. After y, z, how about doing it all over again? Or doing endemic birds.
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They look good. What is an endemic bird?
 
janae, your swaps have arrived. I really like your X bird. Of course, I suppose there is not a whole lot of X birds to pick from? Anywho, thank you for sending a fourth ATC!!
 
TraTra, your birds are here, too. Very colorful and thank you for sending an extra ATC. That Violet Backed Starling certainly is pretty..
 
Cards are ready to go: Veery, Xeme gull, Western Screech Owl, and Whooper Swan. The Whooper Swan is done in gouache ink resist - because you wash off the gouache paint i was very pleased that the bill colors were correct. Adult birds are stunning, so doing the juv. plumage in this technique felt right.
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Van Hasselt’s Sunbird, Weebill (drawn lifesize!), and a Yellow-headed Blackbird. (counterclockwise from the left top)
One more to go, I think a wagtail or a wheatear.
Yellow-headed Blackbird’s scientific name is Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus.
 

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Lunna said:
I also got curious.. "An endemic species is a plant or animal that lives in only one specific geographic location in the world and nowhere else."
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Sorry for not answering…I was very much occupied getting a 2-year-old filly pony from a kill pen, getting her to a vet, and setting up her quarantine. She’s a dear.
I’m a birder and always want to get the endemics first, because you may not be there again. It would be fun to go by country or region. Someone said they did an endemic animal swap…that would be interesting.
 
SageSparrow said:
Sorry for not answering…I was very much occupied getting a 2-year-old filly pony from a kill pen, getting her to a vet, and setting up her quarantine. She’s a dear.
I’m a birder and always want to get the endemics first, because you may not be there again. It would be fun to go by country or region. Someone said they did an endemic animal swap…that would be interesting.
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Yep, sounds like you've been busy! Yes, I hosted that swap. It went over pretty well.
 
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