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It’s Published, “The Hummingbirds’ Gift”
It's officially publication day❗“ The Hummingbirds' Gift” written by Sy Montgomery is out there for all to read. A delightful writer and wonderful friend takes the arduous task of fostering baby hummingbirds making it a loving journey in “wonder, beauty and...
The Hummingbirds’ Gift!
Author: Sy Montgomery / They were found, nearly dead, in a cuplike nest as small as a coin in diameter. They had hatched from eggs the size of Navy beans and were born the size of bumblebees. They were pink, naked and blind, their beaks yellow, stubby and soft. No one...
Hyperreal To Otherworldly: New York City Gallery Partners With American Bird Conservancy To Reopen For Socially-Distanced Charity Exhibition
Author: Natasha Gural /Exhibit From 10/15 to 11/12. View by appt only. Masks required. Small groups 5 or less by appointment. ~~A baby chicken in a clear orange visor hat, roller skating while carrying a boombox against a candy pink ombre background, transports...
Arrival of Sandhill Cranes
Video by Brian Taylor Bidwell Canyon Farm is just up the road from Yampa Sculpture Path & Studio. Brian Taylor does a lot of work on the yampapath project. He also has that -artistic gene- and will be creating a welded sculpture of...
50 Bird Species: And the sound they make.
Please visit the link below to hear the bird calls... https://www.aaastateofplay.com/50-bird-species-sounds-they-make/?fbclid=IwAR27I8GTf1iDxxxHAW1PSfv0P4m9_ZYZ9fkSV6mQE9K6p6Ohh9zONfBrsSY
‘Forgotten Songs’ Sound Sculpture
Sculpture by Dave Towey, Richard Major, Michael Thomas Hill, Richard Wong (in Sydney Australia) and research scientist, Richard Major. Suspended above Angel Place, a pedestrian lane that runs between George and Pitt Streets in Sydney, there are scores of cages. In...
Dinosaurs put all colored birds’ eggs in one basket, evolutionarily speaking
Written by : Jasmina Wiemann, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Mark A. Norell / Yale University / October 2018 A new study says the colors found in modern birds' eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs. A new study says the colors...
Brancusi’s Bird in Space: Is it a bird or is it art?
One of the most significant clashes of art and law in history. From The Legal Palette, An Art Law Blog, March 23/ Reprinted here. Modern Art: 1900-1960 Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1926, polished bronze, on marble and wood base, 115 1/4 in....
From the Mouths of Babes and Birds
By TIM REQUARTH and MEEHAN CRIST Babies learn to speak months after they begin to understand language. As they are learning to talk, they babble, repeating the same syllable (“da-da-da”) or combining syllables into a string (“da-do-da-do”). Do humans learn to speak...
Bird Biology and the Arts
Written by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye (Copyright ® 1988)/ Reprinted 2019 / Artists throughout history have drawn inspiration from the birds. Part-bird, part-human forms have frequently been used to depict either supernatural phenomena or...
How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
Written by By Ferris Jabr / The New York Times / The extravagant splendor of the animal kingdom can’t be explained by natural selection alone — so how did it come to be? A male flame bowerbird is a creature of incandescent beauty. The hue of his...
New Interpretations of Avian Marvels: Birds in Art
From Fine Art Connoisseur /“Regal Bearing: Bird Portraiture” is on view September 4, 2018, through August 11, 2019, at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (Wausau, Wisconsin)/ Above photo: Rose Tanner, “Bee Curious,” 2017, oil Cindy House, “Autumnal Colors,” 2018, pastel...