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Biologist + Scientific Illustrator @ birdpop.org She/her 🏠 Oregon, USA W⚡E 🚫AI portfolio: http://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com shop: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/tinylongwing/ more: https://linktr.ee/tinylongwing

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · Jan 14

All right all right time for a new #PortfolioDay. Hello! I'm Lauren, a biologist by day and scientific illustrator by... other times. I illustrate for publications, outreach materials, & sometimes board games! 🎨🪶🐡🧪🌎

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Digital illustration of a nosa' luta (Rota White-eye), a small yellow-green songbird with a white ring of feathers around the eye, and an orange beak and feet. This bird is drawn with its wings spread and feet held at the ready, about to land on an unseen branch. The background is a loose blur of colors similar to those in the canopy on Rota - bright yellows and greens, with hints of blue from the yoga berries abundant in this species' habitat. For personal use in my research with The Institute for Bird Populations.

Illustration of an island (Bird Island, Saipan) set in a shallow tropical lagoon, fringed by Casuarina and coconut trees. The rocky island is covered in vegetation and tiny dots - lots and lots of birds! More birds are seen flying toward the island, and in the foreground some of these are identifiable as Brown Noddy and Red-tailed Tropicbird. For Nature (NorthStar Games)

Illustration of an Indochinese Green-Magpie with its wings spread as it lands in a thicket of tropical foliage and flowers, all under a bright blue sky with a few soft clouds. This bird is brilliantly colored with a bright green crested head, black mask, red-orange wings, and fanned yellow tail with a black bar. For NorthStar Games' board game Nature.

Commissioned portrait of a Phidippus californicus immature female on a stalk of Swiss chard. She is covered in fine tan hair as she peers inquisitively toward the viewer. She has long black hairs above the eyes at the corners of her head which look like eyelashes.

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 1d

Some digital art studies, from the times when the internet was useful in finding actual references:

#art #photostudy #animals

Several capybaras painted in a partially stylized way

A grayscale photo study of a budgerigar from 2017

A grayscale photo study of a crocodilian and two turtles.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · Apr 9

Late #PortfolioDay post because I super did not have time yesterday. Hello! I'm a biologist. I draw birds. And bugs. And #fanart for weird tiny niche fandoms. Greetings!

#birdart 🎨🪶 #SciArt #LordHuron

A green tortoise beetle climbs downward on a bug-bitten leaf. The beetle has transparent elytra that look like a clear glassy shield over its metallic green and black body.

Digital illustration of an adult Painted Stork on a large stick nest with two chicks at its feet. The stork has a bare red face, long yellow bill, a long white neck, and black and white barred and scalloped wings. The feathers at the very back of the wings, overlapping the tail, are bright pink fringed with white. The two juveniles are simpler, in shades of gray and white, with lots of fluffy down and with half-grown flight feathers. Their facial skin and beaks are dark gray. For NorthStar Games' board game Nature.

Digital illustration of a man about to be hanged at a gallows - but the hangman has fled, his hand a blurred dark shape in the foreground. Cobb Avery, founder of the street gang the World Enders, calls his followers to action as he shows his true skeletal form and flames engulf the scene. He could never have been hanged for his crimes - he was already dead.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 4h

Typical Cooper's behavior haha, they're expert short range ambush predators! Very easy to lose track of, both for you and for the small birds they're after.

Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 4h

Cooper's Hawk! Square shaped head on a long lean body. Kestrels of any age/sex have two vertical black stripes down the face which would show here, and they have proportionally much smaller, rounder heads.

macaulaylibrary.org/asset/226627...

ML226627011 - American Kestrel - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML226627011; © Jim Merritt; El Paso, Colorado, United States

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15h

Haha, maybe! I feel bad for them stealing all those fries, I don't think they can handle the salt as well as we can, it's definitely not good for them to eat human food.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15h

But I mean, if someone who isn't a birder or ornithologist or whatever says "seagull" we do know people just mean "gull" so it's not a big deal except to the people who just love being pedantic about it.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, "seagull" isn't a word that's really used by biologists for the actual birds. Lots of them never have anything to do with the sea! We just call them all gulls if talking about the group, or otherwise name the actual gull species.

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

We are now able to experience Whooping Cranes in ways that were unimaginable only a few decades ago. It's probably been hundreds of years since flocks, numbering in the dozens of individuals, danced together in the warm autumn light. #Birds #conservation #SK

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XX Dovelin ⚡️ @xxdovelin.bsky.social · 21h

Brightland ‡ #art

Black Celestial woman with stars in her hair eyes and necklace in deep blue on light blue background

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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 21h

Please friends, I beg you to alt text your Portfolio Day posts. Personally, I only repost those with alt text—and I encourage you to do the same, as a way to promote accessibility here!

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 1d

Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this

The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤

Screenshot from the game The Legend of Khiimori, showing a horse and rider on a steppe landscape

Screenshot of The Legend of Khiimori in a Steam library. It has a "Demo" tag on the top left

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 1d

On this #IndigenousPeoplesDay learn about Traditional Ecological Knowledge as crucial for addressing our climate disaster.

climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-sto...

indigenousclimatehub.ca/2024/04/trad...

www.usetinc.org/general/hono...

Dorji et al. 2024 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Indigenous knowledge is crucial in the fight against climate change – here’s why | UNDP Climate Promise

Indigenous Peoples are custodians of unique knowledge and practices that can offer effective climate solutions. We explain how.

climatepromise.undp.org

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 1d

by which you mean the exact right amount!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 2d

For oaky-dokey on tumblr, another #Waymakers donor, a Red-winged Blackbird! This female has herself a cotton candy wonderland in the form of downy white cattails in autumn, lucky her!

Thanks all for your patience as I wrap these up! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt

Illustration of a female Red-winged Blackbird perched sideways on the top stalk of a cattail, with the bottom covered in white fluff. She has a pointy gray beak, orange-tinted face, streaked belly, and dark tail. Similar to the males, the wrists of her wings are red, but otherwise this bird could be mistaken for a different species entirely by the unaware!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 1d

looks soooo good yum, you put a very good amount of chocolate chips in there

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 2d

For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Digital painting of a Least Bittern clinging to green reeds as it aims downward, watching the water carefully for movement. It has yellow eyes, a very sharp pointy beak, and a mottled gray-yellow-reddish back. The water surface is murky and covered in little green duckweed leaves.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Imagine being illegally deployed to Portland and not being able to go watch this because you live in shame and bird fans would run you out of their neighborhood.

📸 @devonfredericksen.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/DPMtSdj...

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Right as I finished filming the video from first post the word naked bike ride arrived with at least a thousand people. I watched them ride thru for 5 minutes straight and they were still coming in in the pouring rain

Someone’s back says ICE eat my ass with their ass out

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Rachel Quinlan @rachelquinlan.bsky.social · 1d

A new seamless repeat - Star Crinoids.

These fossils can be found worldwide, especially in areas where there is limestone and shale. And in the UK, they are sometimes called fairy coins. 🧚

Http://spoonflower.com/profiles/rachelquinlan?sort=new

#pattern #fossil #sciart #sew #craft #fabric

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 1d

At some point I'll get around to posting photos from Korea that are less shitposty than this but for now, this will do.

Photo of a storefront in Insadong, Seoul. Above the door and windows is text in English that reads "m'store" and "GALLERY MEME".

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 1d

#Paleoctober2025 day 11 and 12 paleoart sketches with the Precambrian microfossil Melanocyrillium and the Late Cretaceous antler-like crested pterosaur Nyctosaurus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Melanocyrillium #Nyctosaurus

Close up of the microscopic vase-shaped cell.

Portrait of a brown with white spots Nyctosaurus with its beak pointing downward to the right and its long crest only visible toward the base with the rest going off screen. A rocky shore is in the background.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! And then the antagonistic goofy displays between competitors always makes me laugh, haha. They're such great birds.