Bird Nerd Art: Eastern Towhee

in art •  7 years ago  (edited)

In my last art post, I mentioned that I used to lead birding hikes (https://steemit.com/art/@slhomestead/crepuscular-coffee-break). There are plenty of mnemonics that birders use to remember the calls of different birds. Some of them are kind of silly - but they work! I noticed that there were several birds whose calls were "transliterated" to mention tea. So here is the first of three "tea birds" that I illustrated, the eastern towhee.

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Anybody nerdy enough to know what its call is? You can hear its lovely, trilling call to "DRINK your TEAAA" at the excellent Cornell Lab of Orinthology website: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Towhee/sounds


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I love your illustration of this bird. It's beautiful.

Thanks so much. I have two more tea birds that I'll be posting soon!

A beautiful tea bird illustration. Looking for more...

Thanks so much! I just posted the Carolina Wren this morning. :)