Mangrove Swallow
by Barry Kent MacKay
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$450
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8.000 x 10.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
Mangrove Swallow
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Compressed Hardboard
Description
On April 27, 1972, I was standing at the edge of a pond in Taboga, near Cañas, in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, admiring a swirling flock of swallows that appeared almost, but not quite, familiar. "They look like Tree Swallows," I said to my two companions, Gary F. Stiles and Lloyd Kiff, both ornithologists far more familiar than I with local birds. But I knew that it was a species new to me, closely related to our native Ontario Tree Swallows, but with a white rump, like our western Violet-Green Swallow, but clearly not that, either. It was my first encounter with the Mangrove Swallow (Tachycineta albilinea). In the hand I could see lots of subtle features including a very narrow (and highly variable) white "eyebrow" (supraloral) streak extending from the beak to the top of the eye. It is smaller and darker than the Tree Swallow, but shares with it, the Violet-Green and other closely related species – all nine members of the genus, Tachycineta, the combination of a dark, glossy-green or green-blue back and white underparts. Typical of its genus the Mangrove Swallow nests in cavities, such as old woodpecker holes, fairly near the ground. This pretty little swallow ranges from Mexico south to South America. It only weighs about 14 grams, or about half an ounce. The painting is approximately life-size, 10 by 8 inches, on compressed hardboard, in acrylics. $450.00, including frame.
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