Cover Bird

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Insights into the breeding biology of Grey-breasted Wood-Wrens in Venezuela! New issue from the Wilson Journal of Ornithology, with lead article by Necmiye Arslan and Tom Martin (link below). Frontispiece art by me. . . https://bioone.org/journals/The-Wilson-Journal-of-Ornithology/volume-131/issue-1/18-12/Reproductive-biology-of-Grey-breasted-Wood-Wren-iHenicorhina-leucophrys-i/10.1676/18-12.short . . #venezuela #birds #ornithology #research #conservation #biology #wildlife #nature #animals #art #watercolor #painting #pencil #drawing

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Amphibian obsession

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Resistance is futile. Must draw frogs. #marchoftheamphibians . . . #pickerelfrog #amphibian #frog #animal #wildife #nature #art #drawing #painting #watercolor #pencil #sketch

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Seabird style

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This week in @stylistfrance magazine: Julia is wearing Lancôme. Abby is wearing ‘eau de seabird’ and a $17 coat and some pants she's had since 1999. (Accessorized, of course, with a grey-faced petrel chick.) Link here: http://bit.ly/stylist-abby-mcbride. ABBY BIRD-AY. What? . Photo by @edinzphoto! . #seabird #fashion #sketchbiologist #style #birds #nature #wildlife #animals #fulbright #nationalgeographic #newzealand #fulbrightnz #nz #science #conservation #seabirdstory @insidenatgeo

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Efficiency

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Winter sketching in Maine. Swipe to view results. . . #maine #beach #sketch #winter #art #nature #cartoon #drawing #sketchnotes #behindthescenes

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Endangered (by) sea lion

Possibly the most exciting ten minutes of my penguin-counting career, on an island 300 miles south of New Zealand: https://t.co/28msUIL0rT pic.twitter.com/hziV5Dl7HS

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) December 3, 2018