These sharks are circling a cleaning station where little fishies eat parasites off their skin. As a diver you just set up on the side and watch the show.

You have to avoid swimming over the station because if they see other large animals they think it’s occupied and stay away. 🦑🤿

Silver tips at a cleaning station at Socorro. 🤿🦑

A beautiful little pteropod (sea butterfly)

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Made with an Limepeel Prismacolor Colored Pencil Harp Seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus)

Animal Skull Studies using Reference Photos provided by @analyze-optimize.bsky.social (P18)

#addOcean #marinelife #seamammal #seal #seals #harpseal #animalart #sea #ocean #wildlife #wildlifeart #coloredpencil #nature #traditionalart #sketch #art #zoology #sciart

Indeed 💙

Mamma moose with calf near a slow moving stream ;-)

;-)

Otter Skull Studies Made with a Violet Prismacolor Colored Pencil Top: Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) Asian Short Clawed Otter (Aonyx cinerus)

Animal Skull Studies using Reference Photos provided by @analyze-optimize.bsky.social (P17)

#animals #animal #animalart #fauna #mammals #taxidermy #specimens #wildlife #wildlifeart #nature #natureart #traditionalart #creatures #otter #sketchbook #zoology #drawing #coloredpencil #sciart

#trailcam #trailcams coyote (canis latrans) #mammals #dogs #coyotes

Not enough scrub jays here lately...

#birds #photography

A black/grey cockatoo with a vibrant red head sits in a eucalypt profiled against an overcast sky

Today I saw a new bird for me, Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).

#Australia #birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #EastCoastKin #Canberra #Nikon

Andes beauty - The beautiful #GreyBreastedMountainToucan is a bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae found in the #Andes.
#wildlife #nature #birds🪶 #photography #canon #southamericanwildlife #andeanwildlife #toucan #wildlifephotography #AndigenaHypoglauca #photographersofbluesky
📍 #Nono #Ecuador

Morning #bird

A Curve-billed Thrasher warily eyeballing the photographer at the Gilbert Riparian area in Gilbert AZ.

#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #LookingAtMe

A Rough Legged Hawk at the top of a tree.

A Rough Legged Hawk at the top of a tree.

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin

Yawning kinkajou, Costa Rica

A kinkajou—one of the more elusive mammals we sometimes find during my Costa Rica tours—shows off its nasty, big, pointy teeth.

I'm leading my next trip back to Costa Rica just about a year from now if you'd like to join the adventure!

Bright yellow bird with a black face and black wings, facing the camera with his head turned to the left. He's standing upright on a palm frond, surrounded by a tangle of other palm fronds, against a dark blue sky.

Hooded oriole male visiting northern California for the summer breeding season. In the winter, they go to Mexico. What a fun theme for #BirdOfTheDay! #migratory #birds

Animal Skull Studies Made with an Olive Green Prismacolor Colored Pencil Top Right: American Beaver (Castor canadensis) Top Left: American Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) Bottom Right: American Badger (Taxidea taxus) Bottom Left: American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)

Animal Skull Studies using Reference Photos provided by @analyze-optimize.bsky.social (P16)

#animals #animal #animalart #fauna #mammals #taxidermy #specimens #wildlife #wildlifeart #nature #natureart #traditionalart #creatures #creatureart #sketch #zoology #drawing #coloredpencil #sciart

We’re bringing back ye olde analog newsletter! Nature facts, educational media, B+B news, new art, sneak peeks, lil art essays, discounts. Lots of fun stuff!

www.beastieandbone.com/thesnippet

#paleoart #happymail #penpals #natureinspired #sciart

Thank you! 💙

And indeed it is. 😂

Support Animal Photo Reference Repository Support Animal Photo Reference Repository

Hey folk, I am fundraising for a new camera lens!

I've been renting a Canon 70-200 2.8mm regularly enough for Repository photo trips that it's a) pricey and b) should be in my regular kit. I'm worried rising prices might put it out of reach.

So far I've saved/raised $1576 of the $2799 needed!

Thank you! 💙

European Cowrie from a #Shetland Rockpool today.

Most people know these as smooth shells, beach treasures, collected alongside sea glass. Alive, they are a voracious predatory Sea Snail hunting out Sea Squirts

#Cowrie #Shell #Rockpool #MarineLife #Nature

Natural History Museum Skeleton Study Made with an orange Prismacolor Colored Pencil Cougar (Felix concolor) standing on a curved tree trunk

Natural History Museum Studies (P15)

#wildlife #wildlifeart #animal #animals #animalart #cat #cats #feline #felidae #taxidermy #museum #nature #zoology #osteology #art #traditionalart #sketch #sketchbook #sciart

A gyrfalcon wearing anklets standing on a stump inside an enclosure.

A close-up photo of the head and shoulders of a gyrfalcon.

A photo of a gyrfalcon turning back to look over it's shoulder, against a backdrop that kind of looks like school picture day.

New Species: Gyrfalcons

www.animal-photo-references.com/gyrfalcons

All photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).

A gyrfalcon wearing anklets and jesses stands on a glove outside, shaking their feathers.

Photos of the Day: Gyrfalcon fluff-up

(yes, the term is rousing, but this is cuter)

www.animal-photo-references.com/gyrfalcons

All photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).

mom... I'm 𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖗𝖞.
her IG: www.instagram.com/oobleck00813...
#digitalart #artph #catartwork #cat #catlover

Natural History Museum Mammal Skull Studies Made with a Indigo Blue Prismacolor Col-Erase Colored Pencil Top Left: Platapus (Monotreme) Top Right: Camel (Cameras dromederius) Middle Left: Wombat (Marsupial) Middle Right: Opossum (Marsupial) Bottom: Sheep (Placental)

Natural History Museum Studies (P14)

#wildlife #wildlifeart #museum #animal #animals #animalart #animalartist #sketch #art #traditionalartist #sketchbook #traditionalart #mammals #nature #natureart #coloredpencil #drawing #vertebrate #zoology #scicomm #sciart

This turned out beautifully! 💙

#birdart