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6.50" x 10.00"
Pelican Portrait Wood Print
by Dick Botkin
Product Details
Pelican Portrait wood print by Dick Botkin. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
Design Details
Long thought to be related to frigatebirds, cormorants, tropicbirds, gannets and boobies, pelicans are now known instead to be most closely related... more
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Artist's Description
Long thought to be related to frigatebirds, cormorants, tropicbirds, gannets and boobies, pelicans are now known instead to be most closely related to the Shoebill and Hammerkop, and are placed in the order Pelecaniformes. Ibises, spoonbills and herons are more distant relatives, and have been classified in the same order. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. Gregarious birds, they often hunt cooperatively and breed colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees.
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Pelicans are very large birds with very long bills characterized by a down curved hook at the end of the upper mandible, and the attachment of a huge gular pouch to the lower. The slender rami of the lower bill and the flexible tongue muscles form the pouch into a basket for catching fish and, sometimes, rainwater though in order not to hinde...
About Dick Botkin
I currently live in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. I was born and raised in the beautiful state of Maine, where my interest in photograhy was discovered. I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, when I was six or seven years old, and I've been hooked on the art of photography ever since. A year or so later, I got my first processing and print making kit and I began to realize that I could be as creative, if not more so, in the darkroom than in the field. Over the years, my cameras and darkroom got more complex, giving me more creative tools to work with. About 15 years ago, I traded film, chemicals, tanks, trays, and the smell, for a digital camera and a copy of Photoshop. I never looked back. My goal is to capture and...
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Don Columbus
Congratulations Dick, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings"!
Don Columbus
Congratulations Dick, your work is Featured in "Coastal WaterBirds-ShoreBirds"!
Dick Botkin replied:
Thank you very much Don.
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Blair, Thank you for the feature, The World of Pelicans
Susan Garren
Wonderful!
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Bob and Nadine, Thanks for the feature, Beauty of this world
Sandra Wilson
The chains and netting he's on and the blurred background all excellant points of intrest
Marcia Weller-Wenbert
Wonderful portrait of a pelican - love the netting captured with it, gives so much texture. v/f
Sandi OReilly
Great capture, Dick, v.
Lynn Bauer
Nice shot, Dick! v
Cheri Randolph
Dick, great capture of the pelican - looks as if he's posing! voted
Steve McKinzie
This is cool...v
Deborah Benoit
Lovely image and processing!! f/v
Joan Carroll
lovely processing! v
Dick Botkin replied:
Thanks Joan
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Thanks Carol for the Feature, Feathers
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Emmanouil, Thank You for the Feature, Stills from around the world
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Beach Dreamer, Thank you for the Feature, Beach Life