In this section are copies of original works of art. All of them are dedicated to helping us live according to unconditional love and compassion, which is the foundation of our peaceful means of bringing true and lasting peace to all of God's creatures, whether they are human beings or other animals.
(Artwork - 071)
White-throated Crake (Laterallus albigularis)
This vignette painting shows a chunky, medium-small rail found from
Honduras south through Central America into northern South America, as far
south along the western edge of the continent as Ecuador, generally on the
Caribbean slope of Colombia (Santa Marta region, where this is a separate
subspecies, L. a. cerdaleus) and along the pacific slope of the Andes of
western Colombia and Ecuador. A typical rail, they live in marshes,
including cattail marshes, as well as overgrown streambanks and wet meadows.
The illustration shows an adult of the grey-faced subspecies, L. a.
cinereiceps, in front, and an immature bird, in rear. This race is found in
the Caribbean lowlands of Nicaragua south into Panama. The nominate
race is also found in Central America, south through Pacific Colombia into
Ecuador, and it lacks the grey cheek. L.A. cerdaleus lacks the grey cheek
and has little or even no white on the throat.
This was painted, approximately life-size, in gouache watercolour on paper.
Copyright © Barry Kent MacKay
Barry describes himself as a Canadian artist/writer/naturalist.
See his website: http://barrykentmackay.ca/
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