Passerines anew, July 2019 (Patreon)

I happened to be checking which passerine lineages I STILL need to illustrate (for The Big Book), and turns out that I didn't have the three we see here: sunbirds (here represented by Nectarina), flowerpeckers (here Dicaeum) and leafbirds (here: Chloropsis). All three of these are early-diverging lineages of the clade that includes sparrows, emberizoids and kin - and I still need to do representatives of other lineages from this part of the tree. All were drawn from photos. I don't know how many passerines I've drawn now, but it's a lot.

The need to do these bird was inspired by the cladogram I constructed for the recent TetZoo article on dunnocks.... (the article is here:  http://tetzoo.com/blog/2019/7/8/tell-me-something-interesting-about-dunnocks).

Haven't been able to draw much for The Big Book lately (nor add much to it at all, sigh). But more news coming soon. Thanks as always for support.