Yet more passerines - and a roadrunner (Patreon)

I've been illustrating the last passerine groups needed for the bird section of The Big Book - there are probably another 10 or so to go. Here, we have an assortment of passerines as well as a roadrunner (since I decided I need several cuckoos, not just one). 

The passerines are a mix of extant and extinct taxa. At top left we have the large, recently extinct starling Fregilupus (which is known from the fossil record); below it is Erythrura (a parrotfinch; part of Estrildidae) and Aegithalos (a long-tailed tit). To the right of Aegithalos, we have an assortment of fringillid finches: Fringilla (chaffinch), the drepanidines Chloridops (specifically C. regiskongi - the King Kong finch) and Hemignathus (specifically H. vorpalis, named for the Vorpal sword in the Jabberwocky poem) and Loxia (crossbill). All of these birds are discussed in the book -- the bird section of which is nearly completion. I do want it done.

More passerines soon. Oh, the passerine section alone is currently 25 pages long. And it's not finished.