The pigeons you see on the street are all strays - they are domesticated animals, who have either escaped or been released, and now breed in the wild.
In the Greater Toronto Area, there are many pigeon breeders who specialize in fancy colours or feather mutations, and (from their escaped birds) the pigeons of Toronto have become quite diverse in appearance.
I wanted to record my local flock, to show their variety. To distinguish them, they have also received puritanical names.
Two drawings of myself as a yellow-morph Heteropteryx dilatata
Frogs that represent myself and three friends (as well as Tommy the dog, who is present as a worm).
The species are: Pacman frog, Grey treefrog, Bumblebee toad, and Tapir frog.
A study of a leucistic lobster, printed as 4-ink risograph.
Parents used beak markings to identify their babies, and so are a good protection against brood parasitism!
However, that doesn't stop cuckoos and other nest parasites from evolving to mimic their victims' markings.
I have a long-standing fascination with tiny white dogs that are seemingly immortal but also suffer from fifty different ailments.
A variety of frogs and toads that I find pleasing.
A collection of deep sea beasties, lit up by the bright beam of a submersible.
Tallgeese and Wormbecca are two chickens who lived in my backyard for a time. Despite their disparity in size, they are best friends.
