Sunday Safari - On the sea and by the shore

Lindsey Carr, An Oiled Scarlet Ibis

thanks to My Love for you is a Stampede of Horses 

Like everybody, for the past weeks I've been watching anguished and heartbroken

the horrible unfolding of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

Today's post is dedicated to all sea birds, shore birds and waders,

may they continue to thrive in spite of human greed and foolishness!

Chiara Rapaccini

Clemens Habicht, Gulls

Lauren Nassef, illustration for the story Waste

Paul Bloomer, Noup of Noss, thanks to The Art Room Plant

Paul Davis illustration from AIGA Graphic Design USA: 4

Ann Wood, Winter vignette

Guy Taplin, Four Curlew

thanks to The Art Room Plant

Eleanor Grosch, Avocet

Charles Harper, Atlantic coast, Ford Times 1961

thanks to Heather David and flickr's invaluable mid-century illustrated pool

Daniel Chang

Sebastiano Ranchetti, Pelican

Shaun Tan, Pelican preening, Lake Monger

Ingebjorg Smith, Silver Beach Redshanks,

thanks again to The Art Room Plant!

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Sunday Safari - Four & Twenty Black Birds

Actually, if you count them all they are even more,

from Rooks and Ravens to Blackbirds and Crows.

A big flock for our last Winter Safari.

Welcome Spring!

Rooks in Ginko Tree by Diana Sudyka

Les Corbeaux de Pearblossom cover by Beatrice Alemagna

Cria Cuervos Cuban movie poster by Eduardo Munoz Bachs, 1977

Two works from Raven by Emmanuel Polanco

Raven by Lisa Congdon

Blackbird's nest by Joe McLaren

Blackbirds by Jantze Tullet, thanks to The Art Room Plant

Crow by Sebastiano Ranchetti

Raven by Ann Wood

Maggi poster ad from Reklamarsenaal

Cover of Graphis 116, 1964

The Raven by Lorenzo Mattotti

Corvo and Merlo by Marco Cazzato

Crows by Leonard Baskin

Crowed and Crowm by Lou Beach

Poster by Mehdi Saeedi

Rural Corvus and Urban Corvus by Dan Grzeca

Blackbird by Maarten Kolk and Guus Kusters

Drawing by Amy Dover