Araripe Manakin

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Just a pity that this fine painting has been so quickly relegated to the back pages.

Thanks Robert Jones Sir .. Ya , sometimes I also thought what is the criteria here to get a chance to be selected on there special show...which i can see everyday when I open this website...

FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS # 23/549.. ARARIPE MANAKIN .... WATERCOLOUR ...A4... 2015 ... The Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni) is a critically endangered bird from the family of manakins (Pipridae). It was discovered in 1996 and scientifically described in 1998. The species epithet commemorates Brazilian zoologist and wildlife filmmaker Werner Bokermann, who died in 1995. Because of its helmet-like crown it has received the Portuguese name soldadinho-do-araripe which means "little soldier of Araripe". This name also associates it with the related, but more widespread, helmeted manakin (Antilophia galeata), which is known simply as the soldadinho. As typical of most manakins, males and females have a strong sexual dimorphism in the colors of the plumage. As in the helmeted manakin, it is a relatively large and long-tailed manakin, with a total length of c. 14.5 centimetres. The strikingly patterned males have a predominantly white plumage. With the exception of the white