Winged Portraitures :: Colibrí :: Colibrí de las Bahamas :: Bahama Woodstar (6x6)
Bahama Woodstar, an endemic of the Bahamas, would be no stranger to the Lucayans, or Lukku-cairi. They were a tribe of the Taíno-Arawak peoples. it’s believed they thrived in the Bahamas 700 AD through roughly 1500, and at its height had a population of around 40,000. The violence of Spanish colonization and slavery make it difficult to know more about our indigenous brothers and sisters yet believe like us all we live and survive through our stories and the animals who carry them onward.collection: winged portraitures
medium: acrylic on high quality gessoboard
size: 6x6
About the Bahama Woodstar
A small, long-tailed hummingbird of wooded and scrubby habitats including gardens; most often found feeding on flowers or at hummingbird feeders. Note the male’s iridescent purple throat and forehead and its long, forked tail. On females, note the orange sides and tail edges. The male Cuban Emerald is all green while the female is dingy white below unlike the Bahama Woodstar. The male Ruby-throated Hummingbird lacks the Bahama Woodstar’s long tail and has a red (not purple) throat, while female Ruby-throated has little, if any, orange below and no orange on the tail. Calls include a sharp, metallic “tit” or “tit-it”; often given in series, sometimes quite rapidly. Males also make a metallic sound with their tail during display flights. (source: ebird.org)
Bahama Woodstar, an endemic of the Bahamas, would be no stranger to the Lucayans, or Lukku-cairi. They were a tribe of the Taíno-Arawak peoples. it’s believed they thrived in the Bahamas 700 AD through roughly 1500, and at its height had a population of around 40,000. The violence of Spanish colonization and slavery make it difficult to know more about our indigenous brothers and sisters yet believe like us all we live and survive through our stories and the animals who carry them onward.collection: winged portraitures
medium: acrylic on high quality gessoboard
size: 6x6
About the Bahama Woodstar
A small, long-tailed hummingbird of wooded and scrubby habitats including gardens; most often found feeding on flowers or at hummingbird feeders. Note the male’s iridescent purple throat and forehead and its long, forked tail. On females, note the orange sides and tail edges. The male Cuban Emerald is all green while the female is dingy white below unlike the Bahama Woodstar. The male Ruby-throated Hummingbird lacks the Bahama Woodstar’s long tail and has a red (not purple) throat, while female Ruby-throated has little, if any, orange below and no orange on the tail. Calls include a sharp, metallic “tit” or “tit-it”; often given in series, sometimes quite rapidly. Males also make a metallic sound with their tail during display flights. (source: ebird.org)
Bahama Woodstar, an endemic of the Bahamas, would be no stranger to the Lucayans, or Lukku-cairi. They were a tribe of the Taíno-Arawak peoples. it’s believed they thrived in the Bahamas 700 AD through roughly 1500, and at its height had a population of around 40,000. The violence of Spanish colonization and slavery make it difficult to know more about our indigenous brothers and sisters yet believe like us all we live and survive through our stories and the animals who carry them onward.collection: winged portraitures
medium: acrylic on high quality gessoboard
size: 6x6
About the Bahama Woodstar
A small, long-tailed hummingbird of wooded and scrubby habitats including gardens; most often found feeding on flowers or at hummingbird feeders. Note the male’s iridescent purple throat and forehead and its long, forked tail. On females, note the orange sides and tail edges. The male Cuban Emerald is all green while the female is dingy white below unlike the Bahama Woodstar. The male Ruby-throated Hummingbird lacks the Bahama Woodstar’s long tail and has a red (not purple) throat, while female Ruby-throated has little, if any, orange below and no orange on the tail. Calls include a sharp, metallic “tit” or “tit-it”; often given in series, sometimes quite rapidly. Males also make a metallic sound with their tail during display flights. (source: ebird.org)