Anna's Hummingbird Tail Sonation

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For CSUMB's Science Illustration Graduate Program: form and function assignment.

Also for BioIllustration's contest: 1. Create an illustration in the scientific style highlighting an organism's unique or unusual characteristic.

Here I demonstrate the male Anna's Hummingbird spreading his tail at the bottom of his display dive to produce his signature "chirp" sound, which was originally thought to be vocal!

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Created in photoshop with the pen (vector) and brush tools, based on my own sketches. Made a clay model of the bird to help with the angle too!

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