This small pastel painting shows a pair of Kittiwakes. I’ve seen many of these little gulls when I spend a half year at the North Sea island Heligoland back in 2011. It’s a illustration I’ve created for the Federation of German Avifaunists (Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten, DDA). The painting was a donation for the „Birdrace“ on 3th May 2014, a bird watching and monitoring event in Germany, annually organized by the DDA since 2004.