by News | Feb 13, 2019 | Birdie Girl
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 plumage transitions...
by News | Feb 5, 2019 | Birdie Girl
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...
by News | Dec 18, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Over the course of Chinese painting, the three main subjects have been landscapes, birds-and-flowers, and figures. Flower painting, previously associated chiefly with Buddhist art, came into its own as a separate branch of painting in the Five Dynasties (907-960)....
by News | Nov 18, 2018 | Birdie Girl
MNN Exclusive Film / For many of us, spring is an event that arrives quietly. The emergence of bulbs, the subtle shift towards longer days, the welcome return of warm morning breezes. For others, however, spring is announced in a thunderous chorus of hundreds of...
by News | Nov 10, 2018 | Birdie Girl
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...
by News | Oct 16, 2018 | Birdie Girl, Hummingbirds
Written by Kaitlin Stainbrook / Colorful rufous hummingbirds, like this male, have amazing memories. They often seek out and stop at the same feeders and flowers during their annual migration routes. If you reside in a northwestern state, like Washington or Oregon,...
