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Birds With Hats

I love these drawings by Matt Decker. I saw a an entire sheet of them at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (the artist’s from Rochester) and am glad to note they’re available through his Etsy page. They’re all giclée fine art prints, signed by the artist. Here are a few favorites. T…

The Dracula Parrot

Also known as Pesquet’s parrot or the vulturine parrot. The Dracula parrot is a large, heavy bird, stretching to almost half a metre from beak to tail and weighing in at almost a kilogram. It maintains all that bulk by feeding almost exclusively on figs, which researchers suspect is why it e…