Pink Cockatoo in Tamarind Tree
by M Spadecaller
Title
Pink Cockatoo in Tamarind Tree
Artist
M Spadecaller
Medium
Digital Art - Digital & Mixed Media
Description
The pink cockatoo, also known as Major Mitchell's cockatoo or Leadbeater's cockatoo is native to Australia. The brilliant crested bird featured in this image is perched in a tamarind tree. These trees though indigenous to tropical Africa, have been growing in North Queensland for hundreds of years. There are, in the Northern Territory, on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, large tamarind trees that were established before Matthew Flinders sailed around Australia (1802). It is believed that seeds were brought by Macassar men from Sulawesi of Indonesia, who came to fish in the gulf many years before European settlement. They probably brought the tamarinds with them as a source of food on the voyage. Some seeds made there way to land, where they germinated. “Pink Cockatoo in Tamarind Tree,” is a hand-painted digital and mixed media image created in Spadecaller’s Florida studio.
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April 6th, 2020
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