Adirondack Loons
by Christine Dekkers
Original - Sold
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$3,800
Dimensions
14.000 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Adirondack Loons
Artist
Christine Dekkers
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Second Place Winner, Birds Contest. Adirondack Loons, watercolor painted in the Adirondack Park in upstate NY. Saranac Lake NY, Loons are also called divers. All living species of loons are members of the genus Gavia, family Gaviidae and order Gaviiformes.The loon, the size of a large duck or small goose, resembles these birds in shape when swimming. Like ducks and geese but unlike coots (which are Rallidae) and grebes (Podicipedidae), the loon's toes are connected by webbing. The bird may be confused with cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae), which are not too distant relatives of divers and like them are heavy set birds whose bellies � unlike those of ducks and geese � are submerged when swimming. Flying loons resemble plump geese with seagulls' wings that are relatively small in proportion to the bulky body. The bird points its head slightly upwards during swimming, but less so than cormorants. In flight the head droops more than in similar aquatic birds.
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December 30th, 2016
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