#house sparrow
Ideally these two spreads would be part of a much longer comic narrative where the pterosaur spirals into anxiety after the bird informs it that it has nothing to worry about, for the pterosaur is already dead.
Also, the bone diagrams are not peer-reviewed! Nothing I create is peer-reviewed. Always do your own research. Thank you.
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Page 1
Panel 1: Depicts a dinosaur evolving into a bird on the left, and into a pterosaur on the right.
Narration: This is incorrect!
Panel 2: Depicts a dinosaur first evolving into a pterosaur, then evolving into a bird.
Narration: This is also incorrect!
Panel 3: Depicts a diagram on the left and a small scene on the right. The diagram shows an archosaur evolving into a dinosaur, then a bird. The archosaur evolves into a pterosaur. The scene depicts the anxious pterosaur on a small beach.
Archosaur: (waving at dinosaur) hello
Dinosaur: (waving at archosaur) hey
Bird: (fluffing up happily) much better
Pterosaur: (panicking) b…but… then why am I fuzzy and batlike
Page 2
Panel 1: Depicts a bird, a pterosaur, and a bat flying in front of the goshdarned sun itself.
Narration: It’s the power of…Convergent evolution! Sometimes similar attributes arise in species that aren’t descended from one another.
Panel 3: Depicts a labeled cheese with mold on it, a ripe peach, and a wad of dryer lint.
Narration: Other fuzzy things that aren’t descended from pterosaurs.
Page 3
A full-bleed, single panel page covered by a sky background. Floating in the clouds are skeletal diagrams of a bird and a pterosaur. The actual bird and pterosaur flutter nearby to provide commentary.
Narration: But how do we know this is a case of convergent evolution?
Bird: the clues are in the bones
Narration: Compare these two skeletons. What observations can you make about them?
Pterosaur: …besides the grim inevitability of death
Page 4
This page has five panels floating on a sky background.
Panel 1: Depicts an x-ray of the pterosaur’s wing.
Narration: Since both animals fly, what do you notice about their wing structure?
Panel 2: Depicts an x-ray of the bird’s wing. No text.
Panel 3: Depicts an x-ray of the pterosaur’s pelvis.
Narration: We can also look at other parts for clues, such as their hip bones!
Panel 4: Depicts an x-ray of the bird’s pelvis. The pterosaur and the bird are perched on this panel.
Bird: relax
Bird: everyone has bones inside
Pterosaur: no its morbid!!!
Narration: (Depicted next to a small pencil on paper) Try drawing or tracing the bones to see their differences!
The final two image graphics in this post are the pages depicted earlier, but put together in full-spread form so that readers can envision how it would look in a comic book. [end id]
Tapestry nº 3. Xoriguers i pardals
Cyanotype on cotton, 80 x 80 cm
Second piece of a series of hand-printed tapestries. They depict a collection of memories I had with all the wild animals drawn during a very hard period of time, where i had to be isolated in a natural environment to heal.
And yes, nature healed me.
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House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) – Down Royal Racecourse, Northern Ireland
I found this female flitting about between the fence posts as I approached. A moment after this photo was taken, she had a fly caught in her beak.
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season’s greetings!
happy holidays and merry winter solstice to all! In honor of the new snow outside my window, here’s my watercolor and pencil card design I made this year - fluffed up city sparrows keeping each other warm ❄️ Take care of yourselves and each other out there, friends.
psI have a free public post up my p@tr3on if you’d like to learn more about how I made this! and thank you to my wonderful partner @earnestattempts for the thumbnails and support throughout.
pps support your local mutual aid, immigrant rights, and prison abolition groups in 2022 like FANG Bail FundandAMOR RI!
[ID: 1) A watercolor and pencil illustration of 10 gray and brown city sparrows, with feathers so fluffed up they look like orbs, cuddled up with each other for warmth on a snowy tree branch against a winter sunset. The sky at the top of the page is already evening blue, but it shifts through purple to firey pink from top to bottom; 2) The inside of the card, digitally colored light blue with falling snow, with text matching the sky colors from the front. It reads “Season’s Greetings from RI” in dark blue, curly hand-written script at the top. Inside a little white circle, a smaller script says “and a Happy New Year!” over three stacked up purple bird orbs. Then beneath that in shades of purple and pink and red in simple text: “ART: Fluffed up sparrows after a snow, watercolor and pencil, 2021. take care of your neighbors - get involved locally to CLOSE THE CAMPS and FREE THEM ALL!]
Huismus
Hey everyone! Sorry for being absent for so long. We’ve just moved house and it’s taken a while to start getting back on track. Pixel and Widget are doing great, I’ll hopefully be getting more pics and stuff of them soon.
In other news, I finally have a garden (an ACTUAL garden, not just the 2 metre square patch of gravel we had before) and its full of BIRDS! Including a robin who visits daily! I thought you’d all appreciate the photos I’ve been taking.
(I’ve started calling the robin Winter George, I was looking up how to befriend robins and stumbled across an article about Mackenzie Crook’s friendly robin with that name. It stuck immediately, because of course it did.)
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House Sparrow (Passer Domesticus), male, from a banding. Jerusalem Bird Observatory (JBO). 21.10.21
House Sparrow (Passer Domesticus), male (left) and female (right), from a banding. Jerusalem Bird Observatory (JBO). 14.10.21
House Sparrow (Passer Domesticus), male, from a banding. Jerusalem Bird Observatory (JBO). 14.10.21
House Sparrow (Passer Domesticus), female, from a banding. Jerusalem Bird Observatory (JBO). 14.10.21
The story of Birb: Birb came to us because of Lauren’s unapologetic compassion for helping an animal in need. Birb fell out of her nest in the AC Moore sign in Waldorf. We think she laid on the sidewalk for about a day before Lauren found her. We spent a day brainstorming and calling around to various places and no one would take her, they would only offer help. So, we had a Birb. We watched her grow up - begin to grow feathers, graduating from formula to seed, trying to fly and then flying, pooping everywhere possible, and after two close calls with the cats, she learned about predators. I’ve never been much of a bird guy but Birb was a special little fighter. She wanted to live so bad. It was inspiring. When she was ready, we let her go in the woods by a little creek, far enough away from people and cats. We watched her for a little bit, checking out all the new sights and sounds before we left her to it. We know she will do great.
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On another cold, rainy, utterly dreary day, a sparrow perches; wondering when spring will come.
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pet house sparrow
