Paula Peeters

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Ecologist, Author, Artist | Naturejournaling teacher | Art, science & Australian nature | Yugambeh Country, Beechmont, Australia www.paperbarkwriter.com

Black and white ink illustration of numerous plants and animals found in South Australia.
a cartoon drawing of 33 native species of bird I heard from my deck, while having a cup of tea, on the first of November 2025
Colour illustration of the 10 species of kingfisher native to Australia, including 2 species of kookaburra
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 25 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of Hyacinth Orchid.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 24 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a Laughing Kookaburra sitting on a smiling blue buddha statue.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 23 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a White-throated Treecreeper perched on the side of a tree trunk, with misty trees in the background.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 22 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Pale-yellow Robin, with a man in the background saying 'peep peep'.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 20 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Red-necked Pademelon (small wallaby that lives on rainforest edges).
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 21 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Lewin's Honeyeater getting dog fluff for its nest from (where we put it) in a White Beech tree.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 19 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a male Australian Wood Duck and 3 ducklings.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 18 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of different ways we encounter leeches: standing still on a wall like a picture hook; standing upright on a wet boot; attached to a pad of a dog's paw; in a bloody sock.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 17 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Wonga Pigeon carrying a stick, and another Wonga Pigeon in the background, calling 'woop woop woop woop woop.'
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 16 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Blue-banded Bee visiting the blue flower of a Commelina plant.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 15 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of flowering stems of the Kangaroo Grass, Themeda triandra.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 14 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of 2 Spangled Drongoes chasing away a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 13 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Lace Monitor (large lizard) with two hens in tha background looking alarmed.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 11 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a green treefrog with a yellow belly and orange-red eyes, climbing up a wall.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 11 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of an orange mushroom and a reddish anemone-type stinkhorn fungus.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 10 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a male and female satin bowerbird, eating leaves of a green bean vine.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 9 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of 4 figs (from a Watkin's Fig - a rainforest tree) at various stages of ripeness.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 8 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a rose-crowned fruit-dove, with a cartoon bubble emerging from its beak. The cartoon bubble describes its call: "wook-ook! Wook-ook! Wook-ook!"
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 7 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a person in a magenta raincoat walking 2 dogs (in black raincoats) beside a forest of tall Eucalyptus trees.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 6 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a greenish glowing mushroom on black paper.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 5 on the front. It is open at the top to reveal a drawing of two Little Wattlebirds feeding on a Swamp Banksia flower.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 4 on the front. It is open at the top to reveal a drawing of a Topknot Pigeon.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 3 on the front. It is open at the top to reveal a drawing of a cicada shell (dry skin of immature cicada left behind when adult emerges).
Colour drawing of a Eucalypt tree with many different hollows, surrounded by drawings of the 19 animals that use those hollows. Tree and animal species associated with the Eucalypt Woodlands of south-eastern Australia. Below the drawing is text (hard to read at this resolution) and a map of the distribution of this vegetation type, before and after European settlement.
Colour drawing of a Eucalyptus tree with many hollows, surrounded by 19 native animal species that use those hollows. Tree and animals are associated with Eucalypt Woodlands in south eastern Australia.
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 2 on the front. It is open at the top to reveal a drawing of a herb with two royal-blue flowers.
Photo of engorged leech on a human hand. Width of leech is more than half the width of a finger; length of leech is about 4cm.
Photo of large longicorn beetle, same length as the human thumb beside it.
Colour drawing of a Eucalyptus tree with many hollows, surrounded by 19 native animal species that use those hollows. Tree and animals are associated with Eucalypt Tall Open Forest in south eastern Australia. Also text (hard to read at this resolution) and map of the distribution of this vegetation type before European settlement and now.
Colour drawing of a Eucalyptus tree with many hollows, surrounded by 19 native animal species that use those hollows. Tree and animals are associated with Eucalypt Tall Open Forest in south eastern Australia.