Ivory Gulls
by Barry Kent MacKay
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Price
$600
Dimensions
20.000 x 24.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
Ivory Gulls
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Compressed Hardboard
Description
The Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) is a medium-sized gull with a circumpolar range across the northernmost latitudes of North America and Eurasia. There may be some southward movement in the winter, rarely south of where ice forms on seawater or fresh water. In northern Newfoundland people have a lot of colourful colloquial names for birds, and this species is often known as the "ice partridge" and can indeed, from a distance, have a vague resemblance in flight to a ptarmigan or white pigeon. It is the only member of its genus, Pagophila, which appropriately roughly translates into "love of sea-ice" although some scientists include it with many other gulls in the genus "Larus". The species name, euburnea, translates to "ivory-coloured". I have shown and adult, above, and immature, the latter distinctively and uniquely marked with a sooty smudge to the face and sooty-grey spots on the otherwise white plumage. Sadly this species is in serious decline, with Canada's population roughly 80% lower in the early 21st century than in the 1980s, and is now classified as "near threatened". The painting is in acrylics on compressed hardboard, 24 X 20 inches. $600 Sold.
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