Abby McBride

Downeast Maine

Field sketches from the northeastern corner of the United States.

Scientific Journals

Artwork for the scientific journals Oikos, Nordic Journal of Botany, Journal of Avian Biology, and Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

Toka Tāiko

Toka is a Māori word for rock and tāiko is a word for seabird. I went back to New Zealand for another austral summer (2022–2023) to teach geology sketching, pick up some threads from my previous seabird project, and sketch things I saw along the way.

Matinicus Rock

Sketches from three days with the Seabird Institute on an island 23 miles off the coast of Maine (July 2022).

Birdpedia

Sample of the fifty illustrations I drew for the book Birdpedia from Princeton University Press (2021).

Don't Call It a Seagull!

Artwork featured in my MIT science writing master's thesis, which was less confrontational than its title suggests (2012).

NYC Audubon

Artwork commissioned to illustrate New York City Audubon publications (2007–2017).

Hog and Egg

Sketches from teaching for National Audubon (June 2022 and 2023) and other events on Hog Island and Eastern Egg Rock, Maine.

Acadia Warblers

Artwork drawn for the Acadia Birding Festival (2008) on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

New Zealand Seabirds

Artwork from a Fulbright–National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship (2017–2018) in which I traveled around NZ sketching seabirds.

New England

Field sketches from the northeastern United States.

Isles of Shoals

Sketches from a residency at Shoals Marine Lab (July 2021) on the Isles of Shoals, seven miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire.

Galápagos Sketches

Sketched on Isla Española, where I worked for two seasons as a field biologist for Wake Forest University (2009–2010).