Beach Stone Curlew on Cairns Esplanade

Title: Beach Stone Curlew on Cairns Esplanade

Medium: Oil painting, painted on a primed wooden panel, 20cm by 20cm.

Original Artwork by Rali Hart.

This oil painting is not framed. It does have hanging fittings and wire attached on the back.

The Beach Stone Curlew, Esacus magnirostris, and the other Curlew (Bush Stone Curlew) are two birds that sound like screaming in the night and a concerned calls to the local police. It is a large bird, up to 56 centimetres. 

The Beach Stone Curlew likes to inhabit the tidal flats, beaches and mangroves. An easier way of telling it apart from the Bush Stone Curlew is that the Bush species has a simpler pattern and a white line across its wing feathers as shown in the painting. They can be found at the Cairns Esplanade, and are most active in the evenings. This one was foraging for the small crabs in the mud of the Esplanade. 

The Curlews (Beach and Bush) are my favourite species of birds, as well as their eerie night time chorus.