Jada Fitch Illustration

If you're at the Acadia Bird Fest this weekend, be sure to grab this year’s commemorative t-shirt! This is the third consecutive design I’ve created for the annual event. It featurs the charismatic northern parula and magnolia warblers perched atop bunchberry, with the classic rocky coast of Mount Desert Island in the background.

Huge congratulations to my co-creator, Kateri Kosek and everyone at Storey Publishing. Awesome work, you guys! And thank you Nautilus Book Awards!

Excited to share the new logo I created for The International Crane Foundation's "I Give a Whoop" campaign. What a super fun project! Loved working on this guy. Cranes are the coolest.

Excited to share my friend Adrienne's new pro-bird social media account! Follow When There Were Birds and learn some fantastic ways to help out birds. (I did the logo😄)

Northern Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)

Palm Warblers (Setophaga palmarum)

Northern parulas are back in Downeast, Maine! Heard at least 3 singing in my yard this morning. Just as I'm finishing up painting a pair. Warbler season is the best.

White-naped pigeon and Cape fig. A recent commission.

Happy Maine Seaweed Week! (design available on tees at Liberty Graphics and stickers and my Etsy shop.)

More works in progress. Insects and spring ephemerals.

Another future painting...

Sketch that maybe one day I’ll get around to painting...

Long-wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger) "The Long-wattled Umbrellabird inhabits lowland forests and humid foothills of rugged mountains like the ones of Calima El Darién. Surveys indicate that deforestation and hunting may be taking a toll, leaving the species vulnerable." ~ María Paula Rubiano A. Audubon Magazine.

Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) "The biggest eagle in Bolivia is also one of the largest raptors on the planet. The Harpy Eagle persists in tiny populations in intact humid forests in Amazonian and Andean foothills like Loma Santa, where the birds perch and hunt within the canopy, rarely flying above it." ~ María Paula Rubiano A. Audubon Magazine.

Yellow-headed Amazon (Amazona oratrix) Latin American bird number three for this year's spring issue of Audubon Magazine.

"The endangered Black-and-chestnut Eagle, also known as Isidor’s Eagle, hunts small mammals and birds in the steep mountains of the new preserve. Habitat loss in the Andean cloud forests combined with ongoing persecution by poultry farmers have driven the population to as few as 1,400 individuals today." ~ María Paula Rubiano A. “5 Projects Transforming the Prospects for Birds and People in Latin America”

It's not often I get a chance to draw some fun tropical birds. Huge thanks to National Audubon for the excellent assignment. The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus) is the first of 5 birds I illustrated for the article titled, "5 Projects Transforming the Prospects for Birds and People in Latin America", by By María Paula Rubiano A. in the latest spring issue. "The raucous calls of critically endangered Great Green Macaws carry throughout COCOMASUR’s lowland forests. The parrots can be spotted from Honduras to western Ecuador. Increasing ecotourism to and connectivity among forests may help shield them from the illegal cage bird trade and habitat loss" ~ Audubon Magazine