Faculty of Design

Illustration

Avery Bursey

Firehawks

Illustration
2020
Watercolour and Ink
Certian Australian birds of prey have been known to use wildfires to their advantage, by picking up flaming debris and dropping it on unburned areas to scare out prey. This behaviour was only recently known to western science, but has been known to Australian indigenous for centuries.

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Fire Hawk
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Avery Bursey

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“"Naturally" is a series that explores the side of science that the western world typically discredits or cast aside. Such as various cultures traditional knowledge and different ways of knowing and...” [More]