Ruby Crowned Kinglet — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife work spans five decades of international collection

Glen's insect studies demonstrate his belief that everything in the natural world deserves the same quality of attention — not just the charismatic mammals and the striking birds

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specific moments of animal life — a cub discovering something surprising

the dark pools between them catching the sky

Ruby Crowned Kinglet — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black Glen Loates is a memberTwo Ruby crowned Kinglets on a hemlock branch one with the ruby crown patch just visible, both rendered with the fine brush precision that the species demands. The Ruby crowned Kinglet is one of Canada's smallest songbirds, a bird easily overlooked in the field but extraordinarily detailed up close. This 1987 watercolour shows Glen at his finest in the small bird genre: the kinglets are exactly the right size relative to the hemlock branches, the