I’m so thrilled to finally show off work I did this summer for The Institute for Bird Populati
I’m so thrilled to finally show off work I did this summer for The Institute for Bird Populations’ 2020 Annual Report!In this piece I reimagined the Black-backed Woodpecker as a phoenix. These woodpeckers rely on wildfire as part of their life cycle. Recently-burned trees are full of the larvae of woodboring beetles (also present in the image) and so the grubs provide much-needed food for the woodpeckers and their young. -- source link
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