request id info re: birds (1 Viewer)

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Earnest lad

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• Mar 7, 2017

• #1

Dear forum members: please can I request help with some id of 2 paintings of birds that are in a book I am studying: I think the first is some kind of bee-eater species, and the second some kind of thrush. I trust these aren't "fictitious species" invented by the artist!
Please does anyone have any ideas.

 

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foresttwitcher

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• Mar 7, 2017

• #2

Is there some sort of geographical context?

 

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Earnest lad

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• Mar 7, 2017

• #3

Dear Pete,
Thank you for your kind reply.
In answer to the question: I regret there is likely to be no geographical context: The two birds posted are just two of several bird on a painting, which I think is an imaginary picture the artist has made a composite of birds from all over. Please see complete picture below.

 

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Fiscalshrike

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• Mar 7, 2017

• #4

for me, bee eaters mean Africa, so I checked my 'Birds of East Africa'. Bohm's bee-eater (merops boehmi) looks a lot like this painting....Tanzania, Congo, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi. The red and blue looks almost too good to be true, yet it strikes a memory cord somewhere.
Geographical context would definitely help.

 

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Maëlle

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• Mar 8, 2017

• #5

Possibly Orange Headed Thrush for the second?
http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Orange-headed_Ground-Thrush

 

rockfowl

Mark Andrews

• Mar 8, 2017

• #6

The second is an Orange-headed Ground Thrush, just a tad oversaturated - https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8755/16692775228_f576601962_b.jpg

Yes a nice geographical mix there.