#peregrine falcon
A Peregrine Feathursday
ThePeregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) has made a remarkable comeback here in Wisconsin since its precipitous decline starting in the 1950s. While they are still endangered, they are gracing our skies in slowly increasing numbers every year, and they are no longer an uncommon neighbor. In Milwaukee we have several mating pairs and our tall city structures provide excellent nesting sites, including here at UWM on top of our Engineering and Math Science Building, which has its own falconcam to observe nesting behavior, but not much is happening this season yet. The city also offers an abundance of prey, so Peregrines are quite at home here.
The drawings and the painting presented here are from our folio volume Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond, by British bird artist Terance James Bond, published in Cambridge, England, by the Lutterworth Press in 1988. Of his painting of the Peregrine, Bond writes:
The bird shown in my painting is an adult male … calling from what could be a potential nesting site. As can be seen, various shades of grey are the predominant colours in the picture, but I felt this worked well. The high points of the painting are, of course the bird’s head and feet. Apart from being the most important part of a Falcon’s equipment, they also lend a note of relief to the painting by being bright yellow. The branches of the Scots pine introduce an extra colour and a different element in the form of foliage and help soften what is otherwise a very strong composition.
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Full video: Juvenile Peregrine Falcon calling, Greg Gard
Python, Falcon and a Little Dance
The Stanley Parable
Horace is another animal ambassador at CuriOdyssey. Horace is a Peregrine Falcon and is blind in his right eye. Due to his injury, he is unable to be release back into the wild.
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Here, I remade the creepy Drake meme with a falcon because Drake is a CREEP and falcons are not. Feel free to use.
The world is an awful, awful place at the moment… but at least I got to watch this very unexpected falcon do yoga mere blocks from my house today.
Animals studies.
—- falcon in flight.
Went to a raptor rehabilitation center today and saw this peregrine falcon in motion.
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Follow two Brussels Peregrine Falcon families on www.falconsforeveryone.be!
Sketches of a Peregrine falcon and a Shag.
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I wish to let you know that I’m doing SKETCH REQUESTSfor every 5 dollar (or more) Patron on Patreon, every 3 months. :) It would mean each sketch would be a 15$ priced commission. PRETTY CHEAP.
If I reach the first goal the TUTORIALS WILL BE BACK, and those seemed to be very popular back in 2014 when I was doing them.
For now I restrict myself to art tips and drawing postings on Patreon with higher res. The requests are the main exclusive prize for the Patrons.
Thanks for your time guys! Cheers
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If you acquired every animal you have ever touched on purpose in your entire life, what would be the coolest thing you could morph into?
Mine would probably be a nurse shark or a boa constrictor. The snake was from when a reptile specialist brought it to my middle school and let us pet it. The shark would be from a Pet The Shark exhibit at an aquarium.
Not gonna lie though, my favorite one (not the coolest, but definitely the most sentimental value) would be the tiny stingray I was friends with when I was 6.
A perigrine falcon, an asian elephant, or an owl (I can’t remember which small species, but I think it was a barn owl).
Sketch of a wild peregrine that landed half a metre from my face at RSPB Bempton Cliffs a few months back.
I’m in the middle of finishing my Masters thesis but aiming to get super back into art once its all done at the end of September :)
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