Day 4 of #BirdArtWeek2026 🪶 Today’s theme was #spectacularseabirds 🌊 I chose to draw the brown pelican, a staple here in San Diego.

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A stylized illustration of an adult Parasitic Jaeger, flying low over the sea at sunrise, with some distant gulls flying in the opposite direction.

A Parasitic Jaeger for the #SpectacularSeabirds theme of @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026. A bit out of my wheelhouse but I think jaegers and skuas can be honorary raptors of the sea, don't you agree? #birding #parasiticjaeger 🪶🦅

A Great Cormorant perching on rock is drawn in pen and charcoal on grey paper.

Day 4 of #BirdArtWeek2026 with a Great Cormorant for #SpectacularSeabirds

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Painting of a pelican soaring, wings extended forward.

Over halfway through #BirdArtWeek2026! For #SpectacularSeabirds I chose the American White Pelican. I am awed by how graceful they are in the air despite their bulk.

A bit more about my thoughts and color choices on my blog.

Holbein acrylic gouache on a 4x4 wood coaster.

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Painterly marker art on very dark blue paper: a Black Guillemot -- a black seabird with a white patch on its wing, with strikingly red feet and inside mouth. It's sitting on a patch of ice surrounded by ice floes. The sky is turquoise, dotted with stars.

#BirdArtWeek2026 day 4, #SpectacularSeabirds! I HAD to choose the Black Guillemot, because I've loved them ever since learning about them just last year (and even tried to go find one based on an eBird sighting, no luck, but ONE DAY). The bright red! Why!! They're amazing.

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A brown pelican sits atop a wooden post. His bill is closed and his slightly tufted head (yellow face fading to white in the neck) is drawn close to his body.

Next on #BirdArtWeek2026, we have #SpectacularSeabirds! Here's one of my favorite seabirds, the brown pelican. ☺️

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