More new anseriforms (Patreon)

And more new wildfowl/waterfowl -- ok, the swan (a Mute swan) at top right isn't brand-new and has appeared here before, and the Musk duck (lower left) was done a while back and then forgotten. But the others are new. In the middle we have a Coscoroba, an enigmatic South American bird that has been considered a swan or a close relative of the Cape Barren goose. At lower right is Nettapus, a pygmy goose (which isn't a goose at all). And at upper left is the extinct Hawaiian moa-nalo Chelychelynechen, sometimes called the turtle-jawed goose (though it seems that moa-nalos are big ducks, not geese proper).

All of these animals have been drawn from photos (the Coscoroba I copied has its left leg entirely concealed from view - it looks like it's concealed within its plumage, but I didn't know that they could do this [I've only seen a single Coscoroba and it was walking around, foraging]).... except for the  Chelychelynechen. I traced the skull from existing photos and reconstructed the rest based on the proportions established for other moa-nalo taxa. The colour scheme is hypothetical but based on that of female mallards, because why not.

So -- with this lot done... I'm left with a few fossil taxa that I also want in the book. I'll do them next. Virtually the whole of the coming week has to be spent working, with spare time going on the Eotyrannus monograph, so I can't say that I'll get much more for The Big Book done any time soon. In other news, I'm planning for this month to be my last ever at SciAm - I haven't reached the $1000 target but I figure I'm getting close to it. Thanks to those of you here for making this possible.