Bird Illustrations

Perching Birds


Watercolor of two Hairy Woodpeckers clinging to a snowy pine trunk, with black-and-white wings and red head patches. Hairy Woodpeckers (Dryobates villosus), watercolor

Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata (having a spinal cord)
Class: Aves (birds)
Order: Piciformes (arboreal birds)
Family: Picidae (woodpeckers)
Subfamily: Picinae
Genus: Picoides
Species: Dryobates villosus

More about hairy woodpeckers:
Wikipedia: hairy woodpecker