WildRaven

Spooky season is here!! 🎃🍂

#october #halloween #fall #halloweenart #raven #autumnillustration #pumpkin

A common raven flying against a white sky

A common raven rolling in the snow. They get plenty of snacks in the form of 'food meant for bears' and are pretty safe from predators (unless they wander into the wolf exhibit, sometimes the wolves catch the ravens). So you get neat behaviors like snow rolling.

Common ravens interactions with one another. A lot of the birds in the winter are teenagers, so they get to work out social dynamics with each other. Usually involves yelling at each other.

A large group of common ravens in the bear exhibit.

#BIrdtober day 25 is another free bird space!
So here are some more ravens! Grizzly & Wolf Discovery center has year round ravens that are a joy to watch. You can see some really interesting behaviors from play, to interactions with other birds & the bears and wolves.
#Photography #birds #raven

The brainrot got him

#pixarcars #dochudson #lightingmcqueen #carsfandom

a formline design of a scarlet macaw from its side. its beak is partially open; its tongue connects to two humanoid designs that surround it on either side. the tongues of the humanoids also connect back to the macaw, creating a continuous red line that circles around from its mouth to the back of its head. a couple of monstera leaves are also included in the design.

asgyaabag̱m ts'u'uts - chatterbox bird 🦜 about indigenous language reclamation. sticker design on my patreon until halloween!

#art #formline #indigenousart

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A flying raven in the starry night sky holding a glowing orb in his beak.

#BlueSkyArtShow The theme is #Glow. This raven is holding a glowing star as it is placing it in the night sky.

#art #painting #raven #birds

"He looks like--" Stop.
"They remind me of--" No.

It does cost $0 to not compare someone's work to some mainstream media that you like. If you are commenting on someone's art and talking more about something else ENTIRELY, you are likely frustrating that artist a LOT.

Stop doing it. Right now.

Digital painting of a monstrous Nargacuga-like creature with big fangs, a wide grin stuck on its beak, and oddly human-like back legs. It is perched on a rooftop. While the full moon illuminates its back, its tail is hanging in front of a window that a Felyne is cautiously peeking through.

Midnight apparition...
Personal illustration for the Halloween season, and the first rendered full-body of my character Werenon ~
Commissions are still open for one more day! I'm open to spooky orders by the way 👁️
#MHart #monsterhunter

A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers

Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather

Illustration depicting an Houndstone taking a stroll through a cemetery. A Noctowl is chilling on top of the tombstone on Houndstone’s head.

#octillerink2025
Day 11 - Houndstone

#pokemon #fanart 🎐

A raggedy-looking raven drawn on the end paper of a book

Come see me today and all weekend at GalaxyCon St. Louis! Drawing lil' bird doodles in your books or planners or on nice paper.

effinbirds.com/appearances

#Octillerink2025
[Day 10: Collection]
Show off her collection to her kids

#pokemon #pokemonfanart #ポケモン

lord of the wings

Close up with a Banded Rock Rattlesnake's tiny face. These are small rattlesnakes that live in the madrean oak and grasslands of the southeastern corner of the state. This one may have been all of 14 inches long, as a small adult.

last light inferno in west coast rainforest ...
#photography #nature #trees #canada #sunset #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver

「家さ帰ろう」

You’d think, with how life ends in death, we’d all figure out that true value and purpose doesn’t exist in the end result. It’s in the experience we take to get there.

The end isn’t the part that matters most.

That's Ginger the leucistic Common Raven screaming into the void in the shade and dappled light under the pine canopy.

Ginger, looking at you.

Maybe leucistic, just slightly? I believe leucism occurs to varying degrees. I have a Raven for instance that I ended up naming "Ginger" 😄🪶

#Thursjay
#Corvids
#Leucism

Noisy Common Raven #birds #EncinoCA

Picture of a Common Raven standing on a rock ledge with a device attached to its back for tracking. Picture taken by Rustic Falls in Yellowstone National Park. April 2024

We saw this cool Common Raven at the Rustic Falls pull off before Bunsen Peak TH. First time seeing a bird with a tracking backpack.

Yellowstone National Park. April 2024

A black-billed magpie, common raven, American kestrel, coyote, pronghorn, prairie rattlesnake, Ord’s kangaroo rat, sharp-tailed grouse, and short-horned lizard intertwine and encircle a scene showing the Pawnee Buttes. A golden eagle flies in the sky above the buttes. A red-tailed hawk tail feather and a sprig of sagebrush trail into smoke swirls that wind between the upper animal portraits.

“Prairie Life”

An older piece with even older origins. My undergraduate years included significant research and exploration time in short-grass prairie ecosystems. These are the organisms and places I still love and cherish from a formative time in my scientific journey. Sacred. (Check alt text)

PANEL 1: a pigeon lounging, exhausted, on a green beanbag. they say "ugh, why am i so tired? i've done nothing today." PANEL 2: the panel zooms in on the pigeon's head. they have been blacked out, and you can only see their brain, with something inside PANEL 3: inside the brain, a pigeon wearing a pink beret runs in a translucent wheel. a sign above it says 'anxiety centre' PANEL 4: the pigeon runs faster and the wheel is on fire. a speech bubble says "oh yeah. brain never stops..."

tiring work 😪

Snow off your snake art 🐍

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"Year of the Snake" painted in gouache on black paper
#snake #painting

🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🌽🌽🍂🍂

Ruined furnitures

#pokemon

Digital drawing of a rattlesnake with its head lowered and body tensed in watchful warning. A blue-purple flame glows above its head, framed by the image of spiny fruiting nopales.

Crotalus · an oldie fitting for #yearofthesnake, and very much inspired by the work of Justine Lee Hirten

A brown and black rattlesnake stares into the camera. A small reddish jumping spider perches on its flat head.

Ever seen a Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) with a jumping spider on its head? Congrats, now you have.

📷 konijntje on iNaturalist
📍 United States
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#ObservationOfTheDay #TwoferTuesday

An illustration of an old truck in the woods filled with pumpkins, with a pumpkin frog, several ghost frogs, and ravens about

welcome autumn! 🍂 🎃

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