Artwork Description

Watercolour on paper

Signed on the front.

This small watercolour is a study for a larger painting. This group of birds was part of a much larger flock of Godwits which was gathering in a Shoalhaven (NSW) estuary to undertake one of the most astounding bird migrations known to man.. This medium-sized l wader migrates annually between the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere to feast on the seasonal bounties of both hemispheres. . It flies from Australia and New Zealand (inter alia) to North Asia and North Europe - as far as Alaska and Siberia- simply to feed and breed. When its nest building and chick-raising duties are over the bird makes the return flight to the Southern Hemisphere. An interval of only 6-8 weeks between these almost unfathomable inward and outward journeys.

Just to add to these mind-boggling feats satellite- tagged birds have been recorded as completing the southward and the northward journeys of 11,500s kms each-way NON-STOP in 9 days!!

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Medium

Watercolour on heavy, traditionally crafted watecolour paper

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Unframed (requires framing)

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