Shae Warnick's 'Aviary of the Reverend William J. Long' is a mixed-media collection of bird dolls. Credit: Shae Warnick The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature will present Bird’s Eye View: Four ...

The average songbird has anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 feathers. A swan can have up to 25,000. But if Bill Rice had to think about that, he'd hang up his band saw, rasp and hook knife and go back to ...

Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...

The Wendell Gilley Museum is offering two classes on Saturday, Feb. 21, in the museum’s new Haertel Classroom.

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. The ...

It all began in “the bird shop,” the garage in Southwest Harbor where plumber turned artist Wendell Gilley carved some 10,000 wooden birds between 1931 and his death in 1983. When friends and ...

Frank Kilburn was a professor of natural history and ornithology at the Washington State Normal School — what’s now the University of Maine at Machias — for 25 years. After he retired, in 1949, he set ...

SMITHSBURG — John Zeigler Sr. has enjoyed art for as long as he can remember. “I always loved drawing and that kind of stuff. I did some art work when I was younger but I guess I never stuck with it,” ...

North Dakota's state bird and the state's many shorebirds will be celebrated May 13 when Audubon National Wildlife Refuge again marks International Migratory Bird Day. The refuge is offering an art ...

A small bird carving - -the oldest instance of East Asian three-dimensional art ever discovered -- is described in a new study. A small bird carving -- the oldest instance of East Asian ...