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Alexandra Viertler . Biologist & Artist . You can buy some of my art here: https://www.redbubble.com/de/people/atropaia/shop . Hooman of Leviathan the greatest boi✨
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Just saying - they started watching me first (the disadvantage of having a roof window). Now they’re sabotaging my camera ;) #Larusmichahellis #gull #yellowleggedgull #birder #birds #birdphotography #bird #gulls #laridae #larus #ornithology #birdbuddy

Juvenile yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) on my roof. Put my birdbuddy there (without food) to check what is really going on there ;) #Larusmichahellis #gull #yellowleggedgull #birder #birds #birdphotography #bird #gulls #laridae #larus #ornithology

#FantasyBasel2025 is over! @tinybomfrit.bsky.social and me had a great time sharing our booth and look forward to participate again next year! 💚 . #artconvention #birds #birdart #ornithology #goblins #watercolourart #fantasybasel #faba #natureart #dndart #comiccon

Heyyyy folks, I’ll be at fantasy basel this year! @spawnicorn.bsky.social and I will be at booth 605!! ✨✨✨

Some of my top four pictures of our fieldwork in Zambia. Some wasps and spiders <3 . . #hymenoptera #wasp #fieldwork #insects #braconidae #insectphotography #Pompilidae #entomology #spiders #Salticidae #jumpingspider #biologist

Painted an Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) with watercolours - not only the bird with the best Latin name, but also one of the most beautiful corvids <3 . #picapica #magpie #watercolour #watercolourart #birdart #birds #animalart #magpie #birdillustration #animalartist #corvidae #corvids #ornithology

Post-fieldwork blues hitting. . We had an amazing time in Zambia and can't wait to work on the collected material together! . #Hymenoptera #Fieldwork #entomologists #Ichneumonidae

Illustration I did of the life cycle of a stag beetle: From egg to larva to pupa to adult female . . #stagbeetle #lifecycle #insects #insectillustration #holometabolous #Lucanidae #beetles #coleoptera

A review of the species of Darwin wasps recorded from Zambia, with one new species described: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Afrotropical #biodiversity #parasitoids #invertebrate

Check out our new species! There are many more to come ;) . @zookeys.pensoft.net . zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1447... . #parasitoids #ichneumonidae #newspecies #darwinwasp

... and 2022, 2024 💚 to many more years! #bestboii #Leviathanthegreat

It recently was Levis 10th Birthday. Happy Birthday to the beeestest boiii <3 . Photos of Levi from 2016, 1018, 2020, ...

Another illustration for the Natural History Museum in Basel - the Quagga (Equus quagga quagga). . . #extinction #quagga #zebra #extinctanimals #animalillustration

The birds that landed on my balcony (or in front of it) part 1 💚 Sparrow hawk, sparrow (of course), blackbird (in front of birdfeeder). . #birds #bird #birdphotography #blackbird #sparrowhawk #sparrow #birbs

Cat skull✨ Pencil & watercolour . #sketch #catskull #skullart #pencildrawing #pencilsketch #animalart #vultureculture #watercolourillustration #watercolourart #watercolour #watercolourskull

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), an iconic animal at the Natural History Museum Basel in Switzerland. . . #prehistoricanimals #sciart #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Pleistocene #Ursusspelaeus #cavebear #Naturalhistorymuseumbasel

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) . . Watercolour and Gouache - this it one of my favourite paintings. Thinking of making A4-prints of this again :) . #Phalacrocorax #Kormoran #watercolourbirds #watercolour #cormorant #birds #greatcormorant #ornithology #birdart

Watercolour painting of a black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) in Valais (Switzerland). . Although the males have their bright red "eyebrow", I love the colour pattern of the females much more. . #blackgrouse #addBirder #birb #ortnithology #Lyrurus #watercolourbirds #birdart #birds

✨💚 I went out with my winterjacket and a hat. Silly. . . #Leviathanthegoodestboy #luzern

A beautiful bisque. Getting these glazed over the next two days for a shop update on Saturday morning. Where you can find them: www.aysaheff.com/products

What a beautiful smile✨ . #bestestboy #goodestboy

Finished Corsair Voidscarred ✨ . I love how they all look so individual💚 . #Warhammer40K #WarhammerCommunity

Megatherium - from the Natural History Museum in Basel. Am I the only one that gets the creeps when looking at this prehistoric animal? . #SciArt #prehistoric #naturalhistorymuseumbasel #palaeontology #digitalillustration

Levi - aka Grace, ... Speed, ... Agility, ... Determination, ... Strength. (his words, not mine)

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3 dogs are better than 1✨💚 the second and third foto are from almost 5 years ago, but same dogs, same place ;) #bestestboys #leviathanthegreat

Mammoth - I think the most iconic prehistoric animal in the Natural History Museum in Basel is this one :) . . #prehistoric #mammoth #naturalhistorymuseumbasel

Is this the first Levi spam on my bluesky account? ABSOLUTELY✨ (if you hear it, you hear it) #goodestboy

Sabertoothed cat - Lived 1.8 Million years ago. . I will show some commissions I did for the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland. Illustrations include their most famous exhibition pieces, like this Megantereon cultridens :) #taxidermy #naturalhistorymuseum #sabertooth

Kobolds and goblins banding together = absolute world dominion #dnd #dndart #dndcomic #comic #kobold #goblin

Dream of a dead wood mouse✨ . With no visible injuries from the outside it was lying there on a small path in the forest.