Silve Eared Mesias

By Nancy Polo

watercolor on paper, 2020 by Nancy Polo (after audubon photography) Siamo tutti fatti per donare. I have to rely on Audubon to enjoy birds as an artist. This little passerine is hard to classify. I like to think of it laughing... "The species was once placed in the large Old World babbler family Timaliidae, but that family has recently been split with this species being placed with the laughingthrushes in the new family Leiothrichidae.[2 #audubon #drawbirds2020 #paintedbird #watercolor