Another art piece for 2024! Stretching my art muscles and made this piece a bit of a practice project to get back into the swing of things.

What better subject to do this with than the lively & curious Rufous-naped Wren & its many subspecies?

In an attempt to be more active here, my first finished art piece of 2024!

This has been a piece that I’ve been thinking about for many years, and will be a part of a larger set of works hopefully in the near future. Very “coming full-circle” piece for me 🐤

When traveling, I often have the urge to draw but don’t have the materials on me. So, I resort to drawing with a finger on my iPhone 😅

Some comparisons of Kentish and Snowy Plover plumages from the other day when art motivation struck!

#birds #art #motivation

Not quite a return to the Amazon, but a wonderful early Christmas gift today was finding out that I am returning to Brazil in a few months! Atlantic forest here I come!
(Photo from my last time in Brazil)

A scene from the great mega-flight of warblers earlier this month in Chicago! These are probably all Yellow-rumped Warblers.

One building. One morning. Almost 1,000 dead birds.

I can’t even imagine what the numbers are across the entire city of Chicago.

Please consider turning lights off in your home and offices over night as our feathered friends make their journey south!

📸 Daryl Coldren
#lightsout #birds

Hey y’all, I’m Marky!
First year PhD student at the Univ. of Chicago, where I am pursuing my dreams to study birds! (Molec. bio, evo devo, perception)

I also LOVE museum work, with current position at the Field Museum, but past work with MLZ & LSUMNS.

(I post abt birds, art, and more!)

Hi Bluesky!

I am an NSF GRF PhD student at the University of Chicago (starting my first year 😱).
I am hoping to continue the pursuit of some of my lifelong scientific interests in birds, such as avian perception, museum ornithology, speciation, scientific illustration, & more!

In the spirit of fall migration & having not shared art in a long time, here is a lovely Magnolia Warbler sporting its fall plumage!

Day 2: Already loving Chicago!

Have met up with some LA friends - including seeing Kelsey rock it out on stage (check out Reckling!) - moved in & apartment bird list has begun, and of course enjoying the food and nice weather.

Me in a drift car! Drifting, racing, building cars is my sorta-secret hobby outside of biology-related things

It is absolutely a fluffy murrelet Friday.

I can only dream of having the courage these feathery ping-pong balls have just casually floating miles offshore on the ocean.

I am SO excited to share the latest out of the Moore Lab!

Interested in the use of several data-types (specimens, genomic, recordings, etc) and a story of back-colonization leading to splits? 👀 Then check out our work! (& my art is included!)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10411

My first post has got to be about birds, obviously.

Some recent birdies from a pelagic in LA waters, which was a very fitting goodbye!