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Published: 2010-09-20 05:03:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 1727; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 11
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I've been volunteering at a raptor rehabilitation and education center, where they have a lovely (and quite spirited!) educational peregrine falcon named Athena. While she was on a glove, I took the opportunity to do some quick life sketches.Falcons move a LOT. This was a great exercise in getting the shape and gesture of the bird, since she literally was constantly moving.
This is sketch page 1 of 2.
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I wonder, is that rehab centre the Horizonwings Raptor Rehabilitation and Education Center? I have in my YouTube favourites a video of an unreleasable falcon in a rehab centre, also named Athena, and according to the poster's comments, she's at the centre I named above.
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She is indeed! Have you seen the videos of Julian? He's amazing in his ability to mimic words.
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I'm looking at them now and I'm amazed; I really can't tell whether it's the bird or a human saying those words!
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Oh, it's definitely Julian! I've heard him speak, and I've been fooled on more than one occasion by him saying, "helloooo" and thinking it's one of the owners right behind me
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How is it that falcons look so fast even when sitting still?
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I know, right? Even when sitting there, they're still so streamlined (except when they fluff, but that's just adorable).
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Hehe, you should definitely draw a fluff pose if possible. They are too cute and un-falcon-like when they do that!
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Athena sometimes fluffs a tiny bit (t'would be unfitting for a falcon like her to be too fluffy) when she's on her swing.
Yes, she has a swing in her enclosure (and secretly she loves swinging on it when no one's looking :O )
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