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  1. Oruga

    Birds in watercolour

    Thank you. I'm trying to work on my mistakes, hopefully I'll get some progress soon.
  2. Oruga

    Wanted: species with black spots on irises.

    ovenbird43, thank you for reminding. Indeed, I've also read that paper on oystercatchers. Will keep the sex-dimorphism hypothesis in mind when checking other species for the spots.
  3. Oruga

    Unusual city rock pigeon colouration

    Actually, city pigeons have so many colour variations because there is no pressure from raptors and the grey wild morph is not much more advantegous than the white or brown. However, I've never seen this exact colour and was surprised. The colour does look neet.
  4. Oruga

    Wanted: species with black spots on irises.

    I know that oystercatchers and black woodpeckers have black spots on their overall light irises. And now I've noticed that some species of aracaris have them too. All have spots at the same place. It seems there might be some advantage if this trait appears across so many families. Do you know...
  5. Oruga

    Birds in watercolour

    I'm a bit (a lot) nervous about my next project - the splendid quetzal on Arches paper, so I will probably take a break from birds for some time and switch to mammals. Here are the two works I think are the best among the pictures I did with watercolour so far.
  6. Oruga

    Bird using its leg like arm

    Parrots hold their food in one leg when eating. And some raptors fish for their prey inside tree hollows with legs too. Are there more examples of birds using legs as arms? The only case I saw was with chopi blackbird. Chopi (Gnorimopsar chopi) belongs to Icteridae and resembles starlings...
  7. Oruga

    Water-Colors from India

    Bringing awareness about endangered species through art is great. Wish you luck! (And a lot of patience as well!) I also really like your Upupa epops, it looks like you'll develop your own unique style in no time.
  8. Oruga

    Birds in watercolour

    George, Nigel, thank you for the positive feedback, it inspires to not dwell on the mistakes and just draw new stuff.
  9. Oruga

    Birds in watercolour

    After drawing single birds for a month I finally tried a group image. I chose snow bunting as a model, because I used to live behind the Polar circle and am especially partial to them.
  10. Oruga

    Birds in watercolour

    Lazydays, thank you for the complement! I was drawing with pencil for many years, so I have some grip on anatomy, but watercolours (and watercolour paper) provide a completely new challenge. I throw out into the garbage can quite a lot of works. It's frustrating, but I tell myself that it is...
  11. Oruga

    Unusual city rock pigeon colouration

    Met this fellow today. Have never seen such variation. Usual all brown erythritic pigeons are common in the area though.
  12. Oruga

    oystercatcher eating cockle

    What interesting, they change the length and shape of their bills (rhamphotheca, of course) depending on their current diet. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/002829685x00109
  13. Oruga

    Birds in watercolour

    KC Foggin, thank you. The road is long, but I'm determined to stick to it.
  14. Oruga

    Rare White-winged Nightjar

    DMW, yes, "hunting" this species was one of the highlights.
  15. Oruga

    Birds in watercolour

    I had been drawing animals in CG (computer graphics) for some time, but finally decided to ditch pixels and move onto traditional materials. I always preferred real drawings and paintings, yet hesitated to make them myself due to higher degree of difficulty. Some of the first results of my...
  16. Oruga

    Rare White-winged Nightjar

    The white-winged nightjar (Eleothreptus candicans) is listed as Endangered and there are only few known breeding places. The main problem is habitat destruction. Little is known about the species, so a research was conducted to determine their numbers and size of the individual territories in...
  17. Oruga

    Leucistic house sparrow (?), New Zealand

    I'm not sure, but I think it's Passer domesticus. It was spotted in Akaroa in april 2011, New Zealand.
  18. Oruga

    Hermit's nest from Paraguay.

    Can't tell which species exactly, probably scale-throated hermit (Phaethornis eurynome). The nest hang in public shower near a popular tourist destination. It wasn't used while I was there, but I saw a hermit investigating it.
  19. Oruga

    Flying away birds

    I'm not a photographer and I use camera only to document what I see and for identificational purposes. However, sometimes I get funny shots. Here is a collection of some flying away birds.
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