Yellowhead (Mohua) Full Flight, Dusky Sound

from Tamatea: Art and Conservation in Dusky Sound

Acrylic on linen

910 x 610mm

$2800

Once known as the bush canary because of its trilling song, the Yellowhead resides only in the South Island and Stewart Island. 
Rising from the edge of a mist-shrouded lake, the Yellowhead soars to the clouds. Hunter captures it almost as if in freefall, allowing a momentary glimpse of plumage splashed in brightest yellow, feathers splayed in an exuberant fan, before it’s gone, a flash of gold threading through the forest.