Artist Profile: Bird Warde - Bird Collective

Artist Profile: Bird Warde

Bird Warde is a queer illustrator from Maine with a passion for wildlife art. They spend their professional time running their shop Camp Mustelid and working on nature-based illustration projects. Outside of that they can be found pouring hours into birding and trekking nature trails.

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Meet the HawkWatch Crew at Bonney Butte - Bird Collective

Meet the HawkWatch Crew at Bonney Butte

The 29th season of long-term raptor monitoring at Bonney Butte just finished. Meet some of the team, whose hard work counting and banding raptors helps us understand raptor population trends. 

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Artist Profile: Erikas Chesonis - Bird Collective

Artist Profile: Erikas Chesonis

Erikas Chesonis is a Texas-based illustrator. Inspired by mid-century design and folk art, he uses simple color palettes and shapes to distill nature into its basic forms and portray it in a unique and colorful way.

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Artist Profile: Emily Lumsdaine - Bird Collective

Artist Profile: Emily Lumsdaine

Emily Lumsdaine is a vegan tattooer, wildlife rehabilitator, and self-taught artist based in Seattle, WA. Endlessly inspired by nature, she has degrees in biology and avian sciences, and loves to draw flowers, fish and birds.

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Artist Profile: Serena Dominguez - Bird Collective

Artist Profile: Serena Dominguez

Serena Dominguez is an illustrator and visual artist from Miami now living in Brooklyn. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from textiles to drawings, and delights in fine details. A lifelong birder, she also loves dancing, cooking, and spending time with her cat, Merlin.

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Artist Profile: Sayada Ramdial - Bird Collective

Artist Profile: Sayada Ramdial

Sayada Ramdial is a freelance illustrator from Trinidad & Tobago, now living in the Pacific Northwest. When she’s not working on children’s books or other illustrations, she enjoys cooking, baking, tending the garden, and hanging out with her cat, Cardamom.

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Meet the Birders: Flynn Murray & Willow Noir - Bird Collective

Meet the Birders: Flynn Murray & Willow Noir

This year’s Pride collection photoshoot features Flynn Murray and Willow Noir, two Brooklynites passionate about birds, burlesque, and building a community of queer nature-lovers in nightlife that connect through birdwatching. 

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Artist Profile: Casey Girard - Bird Collective

Artist Profile: Casey Girard

Casey Girard is an artist, illustrator, and birder based in Asheville, North Carolina. Their work and personal life reflect their twin passions of art and science. Between balancing their small business and motherhood, they travel to tidal pools and National Wild Life Refuges for entertainment, education, and inspiration.

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Artist Profile: Stacie Balkaran - Bird Collective

Artist Profile: Stacie Balkaran

Stacie Balkaran is a Trinidadian-American illustrator, designer and creative communicator living in Washington, D.C. They love cooking, kayaking with their dog Potato Chip, writing and, of course, birdwatching. They hold a Master of Public Health degree.

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