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I happen to save a blackcap chick, so I drew the cutie, even tho I suck at drawing cute things, so I hope this isn't that terrible.

Please do NOT repost, thanks.

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Some European blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) facts:

It is a small bird, just about 13 cm long (tail included).
The blackcap breeds in much of Europe, western Asia and northwestern Africa, and its preferred habitat is mature deciduous woodland. The male holds a territory when breeding, which is defended against garden warblers as well as other blackcaps.

The genus Sylvia, the typical warblers, forms part of a large family of Old World warblers, the Sylviidae. The blackcap and its nearest relative, the garden warbler, are an ancient species pair which diverged very early from the rest of the genus at between 12 and 16 million years ago.
Fossils and subfossils of the blackcap have been found in a number of European countries; the oldest, dated to 1.2–1.0 million years ago, are from the Early Pleistocene of Bulgaria. Fossils from France show that the genus Sylvia dates back at least 20 million years.

The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer.
(Chicks are naturally fed with insect, but I feed the chick with dog food - granules that are put in water, till they become soft, and then I give it to the chick by small pieces, also I catch flies for it and other insect that I come across to, but mainly the dog food and flies - you can pretty much feed any insectivorus chick this way). The typical life expectancy in wild is two years, but the record is 13 years and 10 months for a kept bird in the Czech Republic.

The male's song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, which is given in bursts of up to 30 seconds. The song is repeated for about two-and-a-half minutes, with a short pause before each repetition.
Territorial boundaries are established initially by loud singing, performed while the male displays with his crown raised, tail fanned and slow wingbeats. This display is followed, if necessary, by a chase, often leading to a fight.
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Art done by: rika_hatchshiba (instagram)

Description
I happen to save a blackcap chick, so I drew the cutie, even tho I suck at drawing cute things, so I hope this isn't that terrible.

Please do NOT repost, thanks.

.
Some European blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) facts:

It is a small bird, just about 13 cm long (tail included).
The blackcap breeds in much of Europe, western Asia and northwestern Africa, and its preferred habitat is mature deciduous woodland. The male holds a territory when breeding, which is defended against garden warblers as well as other blackcaps.

The genus Sylvia, the typical warblers, forms part of a large family of Old World warblers, the Sylviidae. The blackcap and its nearest relative, the garden warbler, are an ancient species pair which diverged very early from the rest of the genus at between 12 and 16 million years ago.
Fossils and subfossils of the blackcap have been found in a number of European countries; the oldest, dated to 1.2–1.0 million years ago, are from the Early Pleistocene of Bulgaria. Fossils from France show that the genus Sylvia dates back at least 20 million years.

The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer.
(Chicks are naturally fed with insect, but I feed the chick with dog food - granules that are put in water, till they become soft, and then I give it to the chick by small pieces, also I catch flies for it and other insect that I come across to, but mainly the dog food and flies - you can pretty much feed any insectivorus chick this way). The typical life expectancy in wild is two years, but the record is 13 years and 10 months for a kept bird in the Czech Republic.

The male's song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, which is given in bursts of up to 30 seconds. The song is repeated for about two-and-a-half minutes, with a short pause before each repetition.
Territorial boundaries are established initially by loud singing, performed while the male displays with his crown raised, tail fanned and slow wingbeats. This display is followed, if necessary, by a chase, often leading to a fight.
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Art done by: rika_hatchshiba (instagram)