{"id":862,"date":"2014-03-07T12:25:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2014-07-05T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:19:09","slug":"among-darwins-finches-i-am-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Among Darwin’s Finches, “I am No. 3”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Krista<\/a>

Krista Anandakuttan fresco: “I am No. 3”<\/p><\/div>\n

“I am No. 3”\u00a0Geospiza parvula, <\/em>Small tree finch of the Galapagos considers\u00a0an illustration by John Gould<\/span><\/p>\n

Mineral pigments and India ink<\/span><\/p>\n

Fresco secco (dry plaster method) on burlap<\/p>\n

Known collectively as “Darwin’s finches,” the Geospiza<\/em>\u00a0genus are endemic to the Galapagos islands– and are taxonomically in flux, currently placed with tanagers\u00a0(Monroe and Sibley 1993). When Darwin returned from his second HMS Beagle voyage, he brought the finch-like specimens to expert ornithologist John Gould, who identified them as new species. After years puzzling over insights from his voyage, including his “finches” variations and their apparent origins in South America, Darwin published “On the Origin of Species”. The other species of\u00a0Geospiza<\/em>\u00a0include: large cactus finch, sharp-beaked ground finch, vampire finch (!), small ground finch, large ground finch, and common cactus finch.<\/p>\n

I find these details fascinating.\u00a0I painted “I am No. 3” because it makes me happy that these historic “finches” are alive and well, in the Galapagos… World-famous with a special place in science, just being birds all the while.<\/p>\n

The original Geospiza<\/em> illustration is by John Gould.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-KA<\/p>\n

Art of Krista Anandakuttan<\/a> on Facebook<\/h2>\n

Saatchi Art\/Krista Anandakuttan<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I am No. 3”\u00a0Geospiza parvula, Small tree finch of the Galapagos considers\u00a0an illustration by John Gould Mineral pigments and India ink Fresco secco (dry plaster method) on burlap Known collectively as “Darwin’s finches,” the Geospiza\u00a0genus are endemic to the Galapagos islands– and are taxonomically in flux, currently placed with tanagers\u00a0(Monroe and Sibley 1993). When Darwin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[15,27,29,50,57,63,118,150,151,163],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-pigment-fresco","category-science","tag-art","tag-biology","tag-birds","tag-darwins-finches","tag-evolution","tag-galapagos","tag-ornithology","tag-science-2","tag-science-art","tag-speciation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fresco_finch_adj.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}