Wildlife Illustrator Peter Schouten
Galleries - Birds - Hainan Silver Pheasant

Scientific Name: Lophura nycthemena whiteheadi

This pheasant from the Five-fingers mountains of Hainan island looks like it was put together by a '60s graphic designer. The bold patterning is there not only to impress the female but also to serve as camouflage as it forages in the dappled shade of the bamboo forests that it inhabits.

Details:
Medium: Watercolour and gouache on paper.

Scale: Life-size.

Size: 515 x 1010mm., (20.25 x 40in.), unframed.

Signed and dated, 19 May 2004.

Price: On application