Dawn Chorus exhibit:
A special commission for Belvedere21 featuring songbirds of the Non-Aligned.
Bonelli’s Eagle (Aquila fasciata) was named after the Italian ornithologist and collector Franco Andrea Bonelli, who served as a professor of zoology at the University of Turin and assembled one of the largest ornithological collections in Europe. The illustrator envisions Bonelli’s Eagle as a unique species with striking and uncommon white patterning. This distinct feature might have evolved as an adaptation to the intense heat of its environment. The unusual colouration would likely draw the attention of European ornithologists exploring the region, intrigued by its evolutionary significance and rarity.
Colored Pencil, 2024
