Dollar Bird

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Unmistakable style: precision, allied with loose painting: I feel I would recognize this bird, if I were fortunate enough to see it: that isn't always the case with the rather vague illustrations of a certain watercolour tradition; all your birds have character.

Thanks a lot Robert Jones Sir... Again you feel me honored...

PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 553/582(Observe the Bird and recognize)...DOLLAR BIRD.. WATERCOLOUR...A4...2015... [From the photograph of Mr. Ramakant Kulkarni] .... The dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), also known as the Oriental dollarbird or dollar roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings. It can be found in south-west Pacific and east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan archipelago and India. It has a length of up to 30 cm. It is basically dark brown but this is heavily washed with a bluish-green sheen on the back and wing coverts. Its belly and undertail coverts are light coloured, and it has glossy bright blue colouring on its throat and undertail. Its flight feathers are a darker blue. Its bill is short and wide and in mature animals is coloured orange-red with a black tip. It has very light blue patches on the outer parts of its wings which are highly visible in flight and for which it is named. The fem