Project Background

Birds of Novasola is an ornithology-focused personal exercise in worldbuilding and speculative evolution through drawing and creative writing. Novasola is a fictional island I designed which I am working to populate with fictional, speculative bird species, complete with drawings, written information, and notes.

My goal is to build an entire field guide of fictional birds for the island, along the way creating a flushed-out and realistic natural history for the place. Each post will feature original illustrations (of a bird, map, etc.) along with "in-universe" writings in the form of field guide descriptions, natural histories, personal writings like letters and journal entries, and educational outreach materials. For field guide entries, the bulk of the posts, the format will include an illustration, followed by more technical descriptions, followed then by more creative writings. While completing the field guide of bird species is my primary focus, I will at times deviate to include other worldbuilding information.

I will continue to post new entries on this site as I find time to complete them.

Though this project is just for fun, I take the utmost care into ensuring everything produced for this project, despite being fiction, is realistic and holds up to detailed scrutiny. I thoroughly research a topic (like bird taxonomy, biology, geology, history, etc.) before writing or illustrating anything regarding said topic. That said, should anything I post seem especially interesting to you, there is a Wikipedia search bar, for you to do your own research, on this site's Sidebar. 

    

Navigating the site:

See the About the Creator section for more information about the greater vision and inspirations for this project, and the List of Entries for a simple list of every post. Use the headers and sidebars to navigate the site. Use labels to limit posts by type. Labels like (field guide) and (ID) apply to bird illustrations, while labels like (maps) or (natural history) apply to posts regarding background info. The Post Archive lists every post by date. The Wikipedia bar is for searching topics or species that might interest you.