House Finch Tapestry

by Lianne Schneider

Title

House Finch Tapestry

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

The sixth in a matching series of bird digital paintings created to look like tapestries. Each panel is exactly the same size and would look wonderful in a set - a pair, a trio or the entire series as a grouping. In three of the images, the birds face left and in three, they face right.

From All About Birds:

The House Finch is a recent introduction from western into eastern North America (and Hawaii), but it has received a warmer reception than other arrivals like the European Starling and House Sparrow. That's partly due to the cheerful red head and breast of males, and to the bird's long, twittering song, which can now be heard in most of the neighborhoods of the continent. If you haven't seen one recently, chances are you can find one at the next bird feeder you come across.

From Wikipedia:
Adults have a long, square-tipped brown tail and are a brown or dull-brown color across the back with some shading into deep gray on the wing feathers. Breast and belly feathers may be streaked; the flanks usually are. In most cases, adult males' heads, necks and shoulders are reddish. This color sometimes extends to the belly and down the back, between the wings. Male coloration varies in intensity with the seasons and is derived from the berries and fruits in its diet. As a result, the colors range from pale straw-yellow through bright orange (both rare) to deep, intense red. Adult females have brown upper parts and streaked under parts.
Their song is a rapid, cheery warble or a variety of chirps.

These birds are mainly permanent residents throughout their range; some northern and eastern birds migrate south. Their breeding habitat is urban and suburban areas in eastern North America as well as various semi-open areas in the west from southern Canada to northern Florida and the Mexican state of Oaxaca; the population in central Chiapas may be descended from escaped cage birds.

Originally only a resident of Mexico and the southwestern United States, they were introduced to eastern North America in the 1940s. The birds were sold illegally in New York City as "Hollywood Finches", a marketing artifice. To avoid prosecution under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, vendors and owners released the birds. They have become naturalized; in largely unforested land across the Eastern U.S., they have displaced the native Purple Finch and even the non-native House Sparrow. In 1870, or before, they were introduced into Hawaii and are known abundant on all its islands.

There are estimated to be anywhere from 267 million to 1.7 billion individuals across North America - a far cry from the endangered Kirtland's warbler I posted some time ago.

Thank you so much to the following groups for featuring this image"
WISCONSIN FLOWERS AND SCENERY - RANDY
ART WITH FLAIR - WILLIAM
SIGNATURE STYLE ART - SHARON
TODAYS BEST ART - DAVID
BEAUTY - JAMES
ROCK THE SALES - JOETTA
ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS - JOETTA
FAA FEATURED IMAGES - ROBERT
ARTISTS BEST FIVE ARTWORKS - TINA
DIGITAL REALISM - ANNE
WILDLIFE ONE A DAY - MARIOLA

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014

All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or painting resulting from my changes. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.

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January 16th, 2014

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