Winter Visitor
by Kristina Rinell
Title
Winter Visitor
Artist
Kristina Rinell
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A male Varied Trush (Ixoreus naevius) in a Pacific Myrtle tree in Oregon, it's berries being a favorite late fall/winter food. Varied Thrushes are stocky songbirds with large, rounded heads, straight bills, and long legs. Usually seen standing horizontally on the ground or in a tree, they often look plump-bellied with a relatively short tail.
Male Varied Thrushes are dark blue-gray on the back and rich burnt-orange below with a sooty-black breastband and orange line over the eye. The wings are blackish with two orange bars and orange edging to the flight feathers. Females have the same patterns, but are paler gray-brown than males.
Featured in these FAA Galleries:
- Ladies Who Love Photography, May 2017
- Wild Birds Of The World, May 2017
- Wildlife ONE A DAY, May 2017
- FAA Portraits - Birds, May 2017
- KINDOM Animalia, May 2017
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May 25th, 2017
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Comments (37)
Kristina Rinell
Thanks, Miroslava, for featuring 'Winter Visitor' in 'KINGDOM Animalia' ... very much appreciated :-)
Kristina Rinell
Thanks, Scott, for the feature of 'Winter Visitor' in 'FAA Portraits - Birds' ... I appreciate the support :-)
Kristina Rinell
Thanks, Mariola, for the feature of 'Winter Visitor' in 'Wildlife ONE A DAY' ... very much appreciated :-)