Patrick Lynch

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Ohara Koson and the Art of Birds in Bloom The Japanese master of “flower and bird” prints

One of the finest wildlife artists of the 20th century isn't well-known outside of Japanese art.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #WildlifeArt #birds #dailyart #scicomm #sciviz #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm
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Amen: Let's keep those fine bobcat coats ON the bobcats...

Praise for PONDS: “Patrick Lynch has created a completely unique, recognizable, and friendly concept and design for highly informative and much-needed natural history guides. Ponds is the latest of his stunning books, and I love it!”—Carl Safina, PhD, author of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe “Pat Lynch has carved out a remarkable niche as the premier field guide author working today. His books are designed so that the outstanding illustrations and lucid writing work together seamlessly.”—David Skelly, Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology, Yale University, and director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History “I love this book! Ponds is a stunning guide to pond life for the twenty-first century and offers bright and beautifully rendered illustrations and lots of new information. It is your own personal introduction to a colorful and magical world.”—James Prosek, artist, and author of Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World’s Most Mysterious Fish “A remarkable, comprehensive natural history of freshwater ponds and wetlands across the eastern United States. Beautifully illustrated with Patrick Lynch’s artwork and photographs, this is a must-have for all nature enthusiasts.”—Milan Bull, Connecticut Audubon Society “I am the proud owner, and frequent user, of most of Pat’s books. His ability to weave together fascinating details and stunning visuals on just about any topic he chooses is unrivaled.”—Twan Leenders, director of conservation, Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy

My newest book, shipping this Tuesday, March 10th!
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #lakes #freshwater

The River Highways Helping Eastern Bobcats Thrive in Suburbia The Crucial Riparian Corridors Helping Bobcats and Other Large Wildlife

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🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #visualscicomm #sciviz #rivers #streams #riparian #bobcats

YouTube video by Patrick Lynch PONDS: An Illustrated Guide

My new book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide. Shipping Tuesday, March 10.
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🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #freshwater #ponds #lakes

Illustration of a Barn Owl landing with legs outstretched. Photoshop/Wacom tablet.

Barn Owl Barn Owl (Tyto alba) illustration (detail). From my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #BirdArt #CapeCod #owls

Close view of the face area of a human head, seen from the left side, illustrating the facial musculature, parotid gland, and blood vessels near the surface of the face.

Superficial anatomy of the human face. Gouache (opaque watercolor), 1988.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #medart #MedicalIllustration #wildlife #medart #dailyart #scicomm #sciviz #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

Illustration of the head and neck of a Gray Fox.

Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) illustration. From my Field Guide to the Connecticut River, Yale University Press, 2024. a.co/d/hIabRmS
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ctriver #connecticutriver #foxes

Close view of the face and head of a large owl, with bright yellow eyes.

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus), detail. From my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #BirdArt #CapeCod

Art and the Animal—Beyond Sentiment to Seeing Reclaiming the Natural World in Art

My thoughts on animals in art, in the Anthropocene age of mass extinctions.
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #art #painting #WildlifeArt

Very close photo view of the head of a yellow Tiger Swallowtail butterfly feeding on a pink bull thistle flower.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) on Bullthistle. North Haven, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #butterflies #Butterfly #Lepidoptera #Papilionoidea #macro #insects #flowers

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

Not so long ago, a few millimeters either way in mapping hardly mattered. Now it's crucial. The U.S. Atlantic Coast isn't a measurement problem, because we've watched every millimeter for decades, and we're now gaining a solid foot every decade due to SLR. [Gift link]
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A detailed trail-side interpretive sign explaining the various engineering and habitat planting to control stormwater runoff from a new housing development in western New York State.

An interpretive and explanatory sign for a stormwater control project. A volunteer project for a friend.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #stormwater #raingardens

Drawing of a pollinator flower garden, featuring an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.

Pollinator Garden. From a possible children's book project I never managed to finish. 🧪🌿🌎 🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #pollinators #gardens

Detailed close-up of a bee feeding on Salvia flowers.

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
– Bertrand Russell
Wool Carder Bee.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #insects #bees

The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' How this book was written is as strange as the novel itself

Profound stuff, at a time when we're all trying to figure the human place in a post-truth world of a billion bots and AI overlord-overloads. 🧪🌿🌎🐡
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A brightly-patterned orange butterfly perched on a violet Buddleja flower.

After the 89 days of February, here's a little blast of summer: Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele). Derby, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #butterflies #Lepidoptera #macro

Snowy Owl Artwork by Patrick J. Lynch

On the Snowy Owl:
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #scicom #owls #SnowyOwl #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz

Our Unserious President Who'd rather talk gold drapes than wars of aggression

"He explained to the American people — whose sons will fight and die (six so far) in Operation Ego Stroke — to say how seriously proud he is of the gold drapes he picked out. So thanks, Mr. President, for meeting this moment with the solemnity it deserves." open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...

Bruno Liljefors The Swedish visionary who transformed wildlife art

Bruno Liljefors
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #WildlifeArt #art #wildlifepainting

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #dinosaurs #paleontology open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso...

When Audubon Was Extraordinary The lingering decline of a once-great magazine

Please permit an old man a brief rant about the mediocrity of today's "Audubon" magazine, compared to what once was...
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #Audubon #AudubonMagazine #scicomm #wildlife #NatureArt #NaturePhotography #Conservation

YouTube video by Paul Krugman no news is bad news

Important. We're about to lose another major news organization — CNN — to the Epstein Class and the broligarchs.

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Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."

Thank you, Helen!

Pitch Pine: Guardian of the Fire-Forged Barrens The keystone species of the Atlantic Coast's Outer Lands

An appreciation of one of my favorite trees, the rugged Pitch Pine, a keystone species of the northeastern U.S. Atlantic coast.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #PitchPine #PineBarrens #CapeCod #CapeHenlopen #JerseyPineBarrens #LongIsland
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A close view of the face and eye of a Brown Pelican, done in colored pencil.

Some birds just look like old souls. Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), colored pencils on Canson pastel paper.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #birdart #birds #ColoredPencil #drawing