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Description: This painting is based on the original photograph 'Red-bellied Woodpecker Showing Her Red Belly' by Cindy Treger, whose express consent has been requested to use as a reference The Red-bellied Woodpecker is a medium-sized Woodpecker in the Picidae family. All red-bellied woodpeckers show a black and white barred back, white upper tail coverts, greyish white undersides, black chevrons on the lower flanks and below the tail coverts, and barred central tail feathers. Despite the name, the red on the belly is often not visible in the field, and the most prominent red part of its plumage is on the head.
Description: This painting is based on the original photograph 'Flawless Male American Goldfinch', by Cindy Treger, whose express consent has been requested to use it as a reference. The American goldfinch is an abundant and widely distributed species in the temperate zones of North America, common in summer in weedy fields, alluvial plains, early second growth forests, orchards and suburban garden habitats where they find their main food and suitable sites of nesting. They are active, acrobatic finches that balance on the seedheads of thistles, dandelions, and other plants to pluck seeds.
Description: This painting is based on the original photograph 'Early Arrival - Chipping Sparrow', by Cindy Treger, whose express consent has been requested to use it as a reference. The chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) is a species of American sparrow, a passerine bird in the family Passerellidae. Originally of open pine woods and edges, it has adapted well to altered landscapes. It is a small gray-breasted songbird with a slightly notched tail, a black line through the eye, a white line above it and --during the breeding season-- a distinctive reddish cap. It molts twice a year. In its breeding plumage, it has orangish-rust upper parts, gray head and underparts and a distinctive reddish cap.
