🌿

That concludes the month of bird griffins!! Hope it helped introduce you to new birds 🫶 it was very fun painting them but also very upsetting to educate myself about some of them

Multiple institutions hold the last alive birds of the species (approx. 150 in captivity) and are trying to increase the population and eventually release them back to the island (though some of them have had problems with hybridization with mourning doves)

Via BirdLife International

It was thought that the introduction of cats was the major factor in the species’ extinction, but after revision it was concluded that the island’s cats didn’t become feral until the 1970s, and now other hypothesis suggest human predation and habitat loss may have been the cause instead

Day 15, Socorro dove

Extinct in the wild

A formerly common bird in Socorro island, but it suddenly disappeared. Observations in 1957-1958 gave no indication that the population was declining, and the last sighting in the wild was in 1972.

Hi, I'm Irene aka illulinchi! :>
Nice to meet everyone!

It’s also vulnerable to climate change as the bushes it depends on have trouble re-growing during dry periods

Via BirdLife International

Day 14, Blue-throated Hillstar

Critically endangered (80-110 mature individuals, decreasing)

This hummingbird wasn’t discovered until 2018. It lives in a small area in the páramos of southwestern Ecuador, where its habitat is being burnt for agriculture and further degraded by cattle grazing

The population has decreased by 80% in the past three generations (24 years) and it threatens genetic variability

Via BirdLife International

Day 13, Regent honeyeater

Critically endangered (350-400 mature individuals, decreasing)

This Australian bird is affected by droughts and habitat loss. It's lost most of it (75%) to agricultural and residential expansion, and it’s suspected that more aggressive species have excluded it further

About 50% of mortality is due to bycatching, and thought to be the main cause of the species’ decline

Alongside that, its small breeding range (exclusively the Balearic islands, Spain) makes them vulnerable to introduced predators such as cats, rats, and genets

Via BirdLife International

Day 12, Balearic shearwater

Critically endangered (19,000 mature individuals, decreasing)

The population declines at a rate of about 14% per year. This bird doesn’t begin breeding until 4-6 years of age and as such, adult mortality is its biggest threat

*Although at least 100 birds were released to the wild in 2018, the IUCN stipulates re-introduced individuals must have produced viable offspring in order to count as mature individuals. Hopefully new assessments will reveal the population has grown!

Via BirdLife International

Day 11, Bali myna

Critically endangered (fewer than 50* mature individuals, decreasing)

Victim of illegal pouching for the cagebird trade since the 1990s. With the population critically low, genetic erosion, interspecific competition, natural predation, etc are some other threats the species faces

Day 10, Rusty-throated Parrotbill

Least concern (stable. Via BirdLife International)

Day 9, Black-faced go-away-bird

Unclear conservation status

Day 8, Agami heron

Near threatened (decreasing. Via BirdLife International)

Day 7, Oriental Bay-Owl

Least concern (stable. Via BirdLife International)

Day 6, Horned guan

Endangered (600-1,700 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)

Day 5, Lesser white-fronted goose

Vulnerable (16,000-27,000 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)

Day 4, Visayan hornbill

Endangered (1,200 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)

Day 3, Reeves's pheasant

Vulnerable (2,500-9,999 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)

Day 2, Egyptian vulture

Endangered (12,400-36,000 mature individuals, decreasing. Via IUCN)

Day 1, Pompadour cotinga

Least concern

This is one of my favorites, so I'm surprised I hadn't posted it here yet

Study of a Wolf Conservation Center video, that I painted sometime in 2022

Thank you!! They're all based off real animals :)c

Thank you so much!! 🫶

Thank you 😭 guess I should start keeping this app up to date with what I paint too haha

Thank you!! I haven't done a magpie one yet but it can always change in the future, with how much I enjoy painting griffins 👀

I haven't opened this app in months, i didn't expect all the notifications 🫣 hello everyone

Since you guys seemed to like my other bird griffin post, here's some recent bullfinch mini griffins 🪶

🦄