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Nathan Redland (he/they)
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💙🩷💜 Wildlife illustrator, failed actor, sometimes counts bats. Avatar: @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
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If you see this, quote with your favourite Pokémon (wrong answers only)
A flumph from Dungeons and Dragons, a jellyfish like creature with a happy little face and eyestalks. It is a warm orange with translucent reddish tentacles tipped in blue. The background is purplish and swirly
October 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Any chance to reheat an underwhelming photoshop right?
A parody image of an ident for the 2010s TV series Mad Men which depicted a besuited man in silhouette smoking a cigarette above a skyline with MAD MEN printed in red and white. The parody depicts two men, one with a pile of Rio soft drink cans behind him, and the text has been changed to MAG MEN in reference to the Men’s careers in publishing.
September 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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a red fox’s paw holds a scrap of paper titled “Tod Do” with a to-do list comprising “eat Peter Rabbit”, “eat Jemima Puddleduck”, “eat Tom Kitten”, “kill Tommy Brock” and “laundry”. Only “laundry” has been checked off as complete.
September 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Black-shouldered masked lapwing at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney NSW (taken November 2019) #birds 🪶
A long legged bird stands on the paved section of a public park. It is white underneath with brown wings and tail. Its head is black with a greenish yellow eye and beak and a brighter yellow fleshy mask covers its forehead and droops down either side of its bill like a meat moustache. Sorry for using the phrase ‘meat moustache’.
June 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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For no good reason at all I decided to recreate this nonsense fibreglass sculpture of a hovering pseudodinosaur (at a charming tourist trap in Greece) into something that looks like it belongs on the front of a 90s Dorling Kindersley book
A fibreglass sculpture of a dinosaur-like animal, it is green with blankly staring eyes, chunky little legs and is “hovering” slightly above the grass, supported by metal poles. A creative reinterpretation of the fibreglass dinosaur model in pen & ink on white paper, it is still able to hover.
June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This has really tickled me
Screen grab of the linked news story reading “the remains of the statue had to be covered with a bin bag to prevent it from upsetting children.”
March 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Certified bop.
Screenshot of a line from a Spotify playlist where the track “Grond - Hammer of the Underworld” from the soundtrack to the movie Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is playing.
December 15, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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First time I’ve ever seen an Eurasian hoopoe - on the side of a footpath in Tenerife, Canary Islands last month, no less, and it got very camera shy. 🪶 #WorstBirdPics
Eurasian hoopoe, a nice warm brown and grey bird with boldly barred black and white wings closed, looking away from the camera
December 10, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Grey seals enjoying the early evening sun on coastal rocks on the Firth of Forth, Western Scotland. (Also a few unidentified sea ducks in the second photo, sorry ducks) #mammals #birds
Two grey seals recline on a rugged rock in a calm sea. One seal is facing the camera, the second is facing left and lying on its side with its rear flippers held aloft from the rock. An algae-strewn beach with scattered rocks leads out to a shallow stretch of seawater where a handful of sea ducks are swimming. Beyond the channel a rugged outcrop of rock points out towards the North Sea, where a grey seal sits up to check if the photographer is of interest.
October 20, 2023 at 8:37 AM
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It’s Craneday so rather than attempting to make a joke about the Frasier reboot here’s a super handsome blue crane at Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Centre 🪶
A blue crane, but it’s actually a nice cool grey. The bird has a long neck with long decorative feathers on its breast and cheeks with a pale crown to its head. It has big dark eyes and a long pinkish bill.
August 2, 2023 at 2:13 PM
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Reskeet with an iconic fictional band
4*Town from Pixar’s Turning Red
August 1, 2023 at 9:38 AM
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Australian pelicans at Kiama, NSW, 🪶
A wooden jetty goes out into the sea next to a concrete boat ramp. Standing on the ramp facing the sea is a big white bird with a long pink bill and black wingtips. A second bird, also facing out to sea, swims on the surface of the water.
July 30, 2023 at 9:04 PM
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For raptor day, here’s a peregrine falcon I drew for my mum back in 2016, because famously the whole internet loves wholesome content.🪶
An ink and coloured-pencil drawing of a peregrine falcon in a resting perch. The falcon is a predatory bird with blue-black upperparts and a pale underside marked with black splotches. It has bold yellow feet and a short, hooked yellow bill with yellow skin around its eyes.
July 28, 2023 at 5:30 PM
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Egyptian goose and Egyptian goslings (Egypt not included) at Kew Gardens, London, UK 🪶
A small chestnut & ash-coloured goose with a pink bill and feet stands on a short-cropped grass lawn with an ornate wall separating it from a blue lake with a willow growing over it. Next to the goose are two goslings, who are fuzzy little guys with blotches of cream and coffee brown
July 27, 2023 at 5:29 PM
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Continuing my tour of charismatic Australian agamids🦎 this Eastern water dragon is hoping you have a treat for them please? (Interestingly this is the only time I’ve seen a wild lizard behaving like this, normally they’re much less comfortable around people.) Mosman, NSW, 2019
A largeish lizard with handsome stripes of black and pale yellow along its tail, and a black stripe following its jawline behind its eye. It is posing with head slightly to the left and body positioned towards the camera. The same lizard has now turned to face the camera, it continues to be very handsome.
July 26, 2023 at 10:02 PM
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Apparently for songbirds I’ve decided to do something ghastly so here’s a European robin reconstructed as a squamate that I made for Christmas cards a few years back. I have only a few regrets. 🪶
A drawing of a featherless European robin, that is instead covered in scales like a lizard’s, perches on a holly branch. The horrible little creature has bright orange scales on its face, throat and breast, greyish scales on its underside and brown scales on its back and ‘wing’, which also sports long claws on the remaining digits.
July 26, 2023 at 3:42 PM
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I don’t have any birds in flight but I can offer the birdfeed some birds in FIGHT. 🪶

Both herring gulls flew away after the melee, though I can’t vouch for which one considered itself the winner.
A seagull with silver and dark grey wings has pinned another to the ground and the pair are fighting next to a parked car on a concrete drive. The gull underneath is kicking their pink legs in the air desperately.
July 25, 2023 at 9:10 PM
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As lizards are cool now (lizards were always cool) here’s a jacky dragon I photographed at the Royal National Park in Lilyvale NSW in 2019. Be sure to admire its perfect little toes. 🦎
A brownish-grey lizard with a yellowish white streak running from the back of its neck to the base of its tail and subtle cream stripes on its tail which darkens towards the top. The lizard is basking on a large sandstone-coloured boulder resting on two others, with grass and ferns surrounding it.
July 25, 2023 at 2:51 PM
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Ah, the three great topics of human learning.
Three hardback children’s encyclopaedias on a bookshop shelf. The one on the left reads ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE in green text with the eyes of a cheetah or spotted big cat in a letterbox window. The central one reads ENCYCLOPEDIA OF KNOWLEDGE in blue text with a diagram of a prism splitting visible light into a spectrum in the letterbox window. The third book, on the right, reads ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHARKS in orange text along the spine and has a shoal of hammerhead sharks in a deep teal ocean visible in the letterbox frame. All three books are the same size and thickness.
July 25, 2023 at 9:59 AM
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Who has no talons and forgot the 🪶 again? This guy!

Here’s some very very old lineart I did by way of an apology.
Fineliner pen sketch of multiple birds posed facing the camera. The artists’ renderings vary in quality as his hand was probably quite tired from inexplicably rendering individual feathers that wouldn’t be visible at the implied distance.
July 24, 2023 at 12:50 PM
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I don’t have many raptor photos but here’s a slightly less raptorial raptor, an Egyptian vulture hiding from the August drizzle at Edinburgh Zoo in 2016.
An Egyptian vulture sits in its housing at Edinburgh Zoo. It is white with black wingtips, which are barely visible as its wings are closed. It is quite hunched up, and the white feathers over its yellow face are scruffed up into punky spikes. It maintains this anti-establishment attitude by having shat vociferously over the front of its housing.
July 24, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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Forgot my 🪶 didn’t I? Here’s the same big bird showing less interest in me.
The double wattled cassowary is now looking down and to the side. In addition to the blue skin on its head you can also see the bright red patch on the back of its neck.
July 21, 2023 at 2:11 PM
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Who likes big birds and cannot lie?

Double-wattled cassowary photographed by me at Chester Zoo, UK
A double-wattled cassowary (a large flightless bird) stands facing the camera. It has shaggy black plumage, a naked blue-skinned head adorned with a bony casque and a red wattle hanging from its neck. Behind the bird is dense foliage with smaller ferns and palms growing around it.
July 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM
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If you needed any proof of the white ibis’ excellence, look at this still from a video I took of one going the extra mile to eat someone’s unwanted salad 🪶
An Australian white ibis is perched on the lip of a trash can with a metal lid designed to prevent animals from getting into it. The bird is using its long bill to reach safely into the bin through the hole used to put garbage inside, and has put its whole head and part of its neck into the hole to reach the delicious trash inside.
July 21, 2023 at 9:30 AM
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For the 🪶 feed today, here is the noblest of all the birds, a hero of featheredkind. (Sydney, NSW, 2019)
An Australian white ibis, or ‘binchicken’ perched atop one of three wheelie bins/garbage cans made of black plastic with red plastic hinged lids. Each bin is stuffed to overflowing with black plastic trash bags. The ibis is a largeish bird with long black legs, a white body and a long neck. Its head is also black and it has a narrow, gently curved beak about the same length as its neck or legs.
July 21, 2023 at 9:24 AM