Original artwork description:

Painted in oil on a high-quality 230 g/m2 paper of 12.6 x 9.5 x 0.016 inches.

Every painting is made using the best quality materials.

The painting is signed on the front and includes a unique Certificate of Authenticity.

The colors may look a bit different depending on your screen settings (they are usually brighter on screen).

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This painting is based on the original photograph 'Sharp-eyed Brown-Thrasher', by Cindy Treger, whose express consent has been requested to use it as a reference.

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds. Large bird with large proportions, similar in size to American robin, their legs are long and sturdy, their tail long and cocked up, their bill is long and slightly downcurved and their eyes are yellow, which make their look quite imposing, something that corresponds to their actual aggressive behavior when it comes to defend their nest. They will attack species as large as humans.

The brown thrasher is bright reddish-brown above with thin, dark streaks on its buffy underparts. Both sexes are similar in appearance, and the juvenile appearance of the brown thrasher from the adult is not remarkably different, except for plumage texture. Males are exuberant singers, with one of the largest repertoires of any North American songbird. They also mimic other species in their song, emitting a complex chain of paired phrases.

Although this bird is widespread and still common, it has declined in numbers in some areas due to loss of suitable habitat (they tend to live in woodland edges, thickets, and dense brush).

As a curiosity, Brown Thrashers are the largest common host of parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds.

Materials used:

Paper, oil painting.

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