In 2025 I challenged myself by completing the 2025 Inktober prompt list entirely with lino, additionally I tried to theme each illustration on a bird that I felt could be applied to each of the prompt words.
Inca tern
African Weaver
Grey crowned crane
Black tailed godwit
Jackdaw & red deer
Great grey shrike with prey
Herring gull swallowing a starfish
Gannet diving into the sea
Ostrich
Swifts 'sweeping' through the air
European bee-eater
Cinereous vulture 'shredding' a carcass
Hummingbird
Woodpecker on a tree trunk
Moulting bird
Adelie penguin slipping off ice
Indian Peacock
Pygmy falcon & Sociable weaver
Arctic Terns
Buzzard vs Ravens
Peregrine's 'falcon punch'
Button quail
Black-crowned night heron illuminated
Cuckoo chick and 'mother'
Pheonix
Raven & a jigsaw
Birds can't eat onions
Terror bird fossil
Fledlging watching mum
Dodo with it's fate on the horizon
Racing pigeons