The magazine features animals I wouldn't see here, like this crane photographed in Sweden.
The articles are informative as well.
Did you know, for example, that the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is in decline in the UK? Maybe they'd like some of mine, although it would mean slimmer pickings for the neighborhood hawks.
The best thing about it is that it's easy to pull a magazine out of your backpack at an airport Starbucks and have a go at whatever strikes your fancy. I also tried a harp seal pup and a portrait of a fox this month. Drawing from photographs doesn't usually yield terrific artistic results -- and because selling or exhibiting any drawing based on a photo from a magazine would be copyright infringement, it's not a great idea to invest too much time in trying to make a masterpiece. But doodling from photos is a good way to figure out the anatomy of the thing without having to work in split-second increments... because, you know, wild animals move around a lot.
