Vera Ting is an illustrator and fine artist with a background in avian biology and ecology. Her artistic practice is informed by experience in ecological fieldwork, scientific specimen preparation, and research in avian morphology. She sees art as an important medium connecting people and nature, where artists and viewers can form personal bonds with subjects through close observation. Her work seeks to reveal the hidden world of museum research collections and our shared commonalities with nature using art and storytelling. Vera holds a B.S. with honors from the University of Michigan, where her thesis examined the variation in Yellow Warbler wing structure and shape across the Americas. In 2023, she was a Bartels Science Illustrator for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY, where she created illustrations for the Cornell Lab’s NestWatch program, Living Bird magazine, membership products, and more. Her illustration practice has taken her to the wetlands of northern Michigan and the deserts of western Texas, producing documentary field sketches for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. When not making art, she may be found in the specimen prep lab amongst friends and study skins or outside catching dragonflies.