Chetan Aditya
Feathered Brilliance: Crimson Sunbird – Dabolim
Photography

Collection of wild bird photos taken over the last decade. Birds featured in this collection are vibrant and colorful bringing joy to ornithologists and birdwatchers.

Chetan Aditya
Feathered Brilliance: Grey Heron – Amsterdam
Photography

Collection of wild bird photos taken over the last decade. Birds featured in this collection are vibrant and colorful bringing joy to ornithologists and birdwatchers.

Chetan Aditya
Feathered Brilliance: Oriental Turtle Dove - Mukteshwar
Photography

Collection of wild bird photos taken over the last decade. Birds featured in this collection are vibrant and colorful bringing joy to ornithologists and birdwatchers.

Chetan Aditya
Feathered Brilliance: Spotted Owlet – Pilani
Photography

Collection of wild bird photos taken over the last decade. Birds featured in this collection are vibrant and colorful bringing joy to ornithologists and birdwatchers.

Kojo Baidoo
African Hoopoe
Photography

During my time in South Africa, I came across a pair of hoopoes hard at work probing the earth for prey. Previous encounters I’d had with the species ended with a quick getaway after one look at me, so I assumed they were also skittish and spent a great deal of time trying to earn their trust. They were focused on foraging but were also fairly vigilant; they would freeze, raise their crests, and spread their wings at anything that momentarily excited or alarmed them. It was a fascinating display, but didn’t happen often and only lasted about a second or two each time. Then, at one point, a bird just kept coming closer until it was right at the edge of my minimum focusing distance. It looked up, did that display for a fleeting moment, then continued on foraging- somehow, I was able to capture it!

The problem of a bird being too close is a uniquely frustrating one because it doesn’t happen often, but it’s always a bit of a heart-thumping experience. That's because chances are it won’t last very long, the closer the subject the greater the chance for focusing errors, and I usually have one chance to get it right. I’m still in awe that I was able to here, especially with a broken camera that only let me focus manually. Later on, a passing tourist, although referring to my dismayed reaction when a sunbird I was photographing flew off, described it best when he said “lots of patience and more luck, even.” It’s incredibly frustrating must of the time, but the memories and images resulting from rare strokes of luck always keep me coming back for more.

Kojo Baidoo
Blackburnian Warbler
Photography

Western Maryland is probably my favorite place on the planet. Since it’s home to expansive mixed deciduous and coniferous forest that features the eastern hemlock (my favorite tree by far!), many birds that can’t be found anywhere else in the state call this region home. Undoubtedly one of the most sought-after of those species is the Blackburnian warbler, a denizen of the canopy that prefers the very tops of trees and has a high, buzzy, ascending song that I think matches its appearance and character quite well. It’s easy to see why they’re a favorite among birders, and although I like to show the more under-appreciated birds some love, even I can’t say no to these beauties; in the plumage department, they’re simply unmatched. What a bird!

Kojo Baidoo
Black Vulture
Photography

I’ve always had a bit of sympathy for vultures, more than most birders or people in general. They’re beautiful birds with fascinating behaviors, and hold an important role as the only vertebrate obligate scavengers in the world, so always pay them their dues! There are a number of really interesting aspects of black vultures’ life history tied to their sociality, as they’re communal roosters, and it’s so fun to watch them interact with each other. Even if you don’t love them, the one thing we can agree on is that they’re unapologetically themselves in all their gross glory. They might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but all I ask is that the next time you see a black vulture (or any vulture at that) circling overhead, take a second to watch and appreciate it for what it is: a fascinating character that never fails to entertain.

Kojo Baidoo
Lilac-breasted Roller
Photography

It’s virtually impossible to visit the savanna of eastern and southern Africa without seeing the iconic lilac-breasted roller. Oftentimes species deemed “favorites” by birders and non-birders diverge for a multitude of reasons (namely visibility), but this is one that I think pretty much everyone can agree on enjoying. It’s not hard to see why- in a family chock-full of large, colorful, and conspicuous birds, lilac-breasted rollers very much manage to hold their own. They’re spectacular enough when perched (exhibit A here) and then in flight they boast a mix of sky and royal blue on their feathers. One thing I love about them and the family in general is that it isn’t enough to be easy on the eyes for them- most roller species prefer pretty open habitats and choose the most prominent perches so they can be viewed in all their glory!

Amber Chow
cloud of flight
Acrylic Paint on Canvas

Warm and worriless, I painted this cockatoo at a paint-and-sip event with a cherished friend. We ate tamales and chatted easily, learning each other in small unhurried strokes. Warm colors, marigolds, and a dollop of feathered friendship.

Amber Chow
The Scarlet Ibis
Wood Block Print

Inspired by the short story The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, this colorful rendition of a scarlet ibis is depicted in the bright colors of a storybook. Sun-rayed crown of shattering fragility.

Kailyn Cohen
Nomenclature of Colors
Gouache Paint on Pantone Cards

Smithsonian ornithologist, Robert Ridgway, developed a color system based on the color of birds in 1886 that eventually became the well-known Pantone color chart. Painting birds onto Pantone cards recalls its origins and celebrates the diversity of birds through color.

Andy Dobson
Four way Teal
Photography

Picture of two red-billed teal reflected in pool, Serengeti NP, Tanzania.

Andy Dobson
Perilous song
Photography

Crested lark, perched on very spiny Acacia determined to sing and maintain its balance.
South of Seronera, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
Early morning in Serengeti where I always see something that astounds me that I've never seen before.

Kellen Ducey
Formosan Blue Magpie
Ink on Paper

Through the careful repetition of tiny ink dots, this piece captures a Formosan blue magpie as it alights upon a branch. The precise pointillism serves to encapsulate the fine details of each feather and the delicate movement of the magpie as a whole.

Brooke Hull
Pondering the City
Photography

This photograph shows a male wood duck swimming in a pond in central park on a sunny fall day. He is usually an elusive waterfowl, easy to identify, but hard to get a good look at. He has emerged from his drab late summer eclipse plumage to show his bright and intricate patterns glimmering in the sun. When contrasted with the familiar male mallard duck, a bird found in ponds across the nation, you see similarities. The green sheen of the head, the striated brown and white feathers, the white neck ring all remind you of the mallard, but these distinct birds are yet so different. The elusive wood duck in central park shows us beauty and diversity in unexpected places.

Sakina Isadibir
Burrowing Owl
Ballpoint Pen on Paper

Drawing from observation of a taxidermy Burrowing Owl.

Kathleen Kissane
Vibrant Feathers: A Glimpse of Hope
Photography

Sometimes you are just in the right place at the right time, but other times there seems to be more at play. During a recent trip to the Texas low country, my main goal was simple: help my sister, who just went into remission, find hope that her best days were ahead of her. I’ve learned that even with the news of remission, hope can be an exhausting concept. She needed a sign, a reassurance that was more than my words of, “You got this!” While we sat on her porch we both gasped as a very colorful bird flew by and perched on a branch in front of us. I instinctively grabbed my camera that was next to me. It sat patiently, almost inviting me to take a photo and for us to appreciate the moment. Neither of us had ever seen a painted bunting before and learned they are only in Texas for a short time. The vibrancy of this bird was a reminder to my sister of the beauty of this world and there were so many amazing miracles ahead for her.

David Ocampo
Sexually dichromatic
Photography

Tanagers are one of the most colorful birds in the tropics. Among them, the most dichromatic species belong to the groups of Honeycreepers. Particularly for these Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus; originally namde by Linnaeus (1758), the etymology of the generic name Cyanerpes is based on the Greek words kuanos meaning dark blue and herpēs meaning a creeping thing. The specific epithet caeruleus derives from the Latin word caerulea, which translates as blue), the astonishing purple-blue in the male (left) presents very high UV reflectance likely playing a role in sexual selection. The female (right) with yellow-green striped colors, exhibits a beautiful bright blue thin malar. This photograph was taken during a biodiversity survey in the Colombian Central Andes, in one of the localities visited ~100 years ago by the expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History led by the Ornithologist Frank M. Chapman.

Aashna Pandey
Celestial Peacock
Acrylic Paint

As a Hindu, the peacock has always held immense significance for me. Keeping a peacock feather in each room of the house was said to bring prosperity and auspiciousness, and I grew up with the tales of Krishna adorning a feather on his crown and Kartikeya riding a peacock into battle. To me, the peacock's beauty is a constant reminder of the beauty that I find within my own religion, and this painting is my attempt to embody that.

Minal Patel
Colors of the Hummingbird
Color Pencils and Marker

Small, precious, but mighty. That's what I would like to think I am, but certainly these words better describe the beautiful hummingbird. With their colorfully rich bodies and humming little wings, they have long been known to symbolize beauty, devotion, and intelligence. However, even more inspiring is the role they play in the environment as key pollinators. Without these tiny birds, pollination - especially for plants who have evolved to primarily rely on hummingbirds only - would be significantly reduced. Who knows what our world would look like without them!

Denis Peskoff
Dorian (blue)Jay
Laser Engraved Wood and Plastic

This blue jay ostentatiously flaunted its color on my porch, indifferent to owl, hawk, and iPhone. But what happens to the blue jay when it's no longer blue? When its feathers are plucked? When its soul is bared? Released from its sapphire magnificence, the blue jay finds itself a jay: free to pursue the natural light or the synthetic dark. Pride came before this Fall (exhibition).

Susan VanderKam
If Looks Could Kill
Photography

This beautiful Green Heron was perched near the edge of Beaver Lake in Asheville, NC performing its morning ablutions. It appeared somewhat aggrieved that its private time was being recorded. (Nikon P1000, 432 mm f/7.1 1/500s ISO 400)

Hannah Waldfogel
Masked Flowerpiercer
Digital Painting (iPad, Procreate)

I enjoy digitally painting photographs my loved ones have taken. The photograph from which I painted was taken by my bird-loving friend, Chris Dolan, during his travels in Central and South America. He spotted this Masked Flowerpiercer in Manizales, Colombia in January of 2023. I painted this as a personal tribute to my dear friend Chris, a lifelong bird enthusiast who once won our middle school's 'Bird Brain' award for his ability to identify bird calls and who is planning to return to Colombia to pursue a graduate degree in ornithology next year. I aimed to capture the intricate details and vibrant colors of the Masked Flowerpiercer and its surroundings to celebrate the very essence of nature that has always fascinated Chris.

David Wilcove
Fifty Shades of Green
Photography

A Crimson-rumped Toucanet in cloud forests of Ecuador.

Daniel Tajes
Luz Goose
Transparent recyclable materials

This work seeks to illuminate some of the ways in which birds perceive the world (magnetoreception), the way light behaves (polarization), and the interrelation between these bio-physical-chemistry mechanisms.

Chetan Aditya
Feathered Brilliance: Indian Peacock - Pilani
Photography

Collection of wild bird photos taken over the last decade. Birds featured in this collection are vibrant and colorful bringing joy to ornithologists and birdwatchers.

Kelly Finke
Kingfisher Shadows
Cyanotype

Cyanotype printing is a form of cameraless photography dating back to 1842. The cyan color is formed by a reaction between two chemicals – ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. When combined and applied to paper or fabric, the chemicals leave a yellow residue which dyes the material deep blue when exposed to ultraviolet light. Any object which blocks the light prevents the reaction. Here, I use the sun as a UV light source and Kingfisher feathers as a subject. Light areas of the feathers allow light to pass through, while dark areas protect the original white of the paper, leaving an inverted image on the material. It can be impossible to capture the feathers' full range of values in a single print: too little exposure, and fine details of dark feathers are lost; too much, and the lightest feathers vanish entirely from the final print.

David Ocampo
Convergent shapes
Photography

Convergent evolution can be described as the phenomenon in which unrelated organisms independently develop similar characteristics in response to similar demands. Having convenient bill shapes for foraging, like drinking nectar in Heliconias –left: White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila)– or searching for insects and arthropods in holes of the vegetation –right: Red-billed Scythebill (Campylorhamphus trochilirostris)–, can be good examples of it!

David Ocampo
Eggspiral
Photography

The eggs of the birds have fascinated humans for centuries. The marvelous size, shape, and colour variation made eggs one of the most interesting study models to explore questions about the ecology of the species through their evolutionary history. Therefore, it is not surprising that Museum collections of eggs are amazing libraries that encompass nature wonders. These eggs are part of the Oological Collection Cornelis J. Marinkelle at the Instituto Humboldt IAvH-CJM, Colombia.

David Ocampo
Hermit's Tail fan
Photography

The rufus color in the Rufous-breasted Hermit (Glaucis hirsutus) is also present in the symmetric color pattern of its tail. This hermit hummingbird has a chirp call which consists of a quick descending series of high-pitched syllables, while perched, accompanied by up-and-down tail-wagging! The photograph was taken during a biodiversity survey in the Chocó Biogeographical Region, the top 3 in the wettest places on earth, comprising the Pacific Coast of Colombia, spreading from Panamá to Ecuador.

Jennifer Cabral
Bird Clock
Multimedia Installation

In this art installation, a photograph is displayed along side a series of charts representing bird observations of twelve native species from the Northeast of the United States. These are the same twelve birds included on a common wall clock emitting a bird song for each hour of the day. Initially these species were represented on a clock dial because of it’s wide spread presence in our habitat, now this ticking-clock is a reminder of possible extinctions.

In the context of a world pandemic, the significant role of birds as an indicator species of climate change became intertwined with the ancient symbolism of birds as the guides of souls to the otherworld. In ancient Greece they were called psycopomps. Instead of showing daily counts of COVID cases and deaths, I counted the presence of birds in a specific area of Mercer County, NJ. Here I include a selection of monthly bird observations between March 2020 to February 2021, collected from one of the world’s largest biodiversity-related science projects, ebird.

The area of observation selected was central New Jersey, in particular Princeton area and the bird sanctuary “Charles H. Rogers Wildlife Refuge” - about 90 bird species use this refuge as its nesting habitat and over 200 species visit it during migration. Because of his role in establishing this area as a bird sanctuary, and in recognition of his contribution to ornithology, a Wildlife Refuge in central New Jersey was dedicated to Charles H. Rogers upon his death in 1977. His personal bird journals were the inspiration for this art installation as well as an online exhibition I curated from the Digital Collections at Princeton University Library. Bird Clock installation was exhibited at Artworks Trenton during the exhibition Sutured Resilience in March 2021.
Access complete project at https://www.piercecabraleditions.com/birdclock

Amber Chow
metropolitan
Photography

What a perfect snapshot of life in the city. Its a little grumy, things are moving all around you, and if you don't hustle someone is ready to take what you want. No wonder he's red-eyed. He's gonna get that bread though. Absolutely.

Amber Chow
The Road Trip Guide
Photography

At a pitstop in Colorado traveling across the country alone. This one took perch at an overlook and then back off into the wind not long after. I followed suit, taking a moment to look out over the scene before continuing on my journey

Guillaume Falmagne
Horn call for Danger
Photography

These Southern Ground Hornbills are listed as endangered in South Africa. Traveling there with my partner, we were sad to learn that these bright colors might fade due to human activity. The pair in this picture looks a bit melancholic too, maybe they somehow feel the ongoing tragedy?

Guillaume Falmagne
Silly? Discussions
Photography

This famous cliff in Étretat (France) inspired many writers and painters. It was also the stage of the French yearly gathering of scientists from my field, which is why I went there every year. Particle physicists love to debate passionately about silly (or less silly) topics; did these seagulls inspire us, or we inspired them?

Henry Gage
Birds of the Galápagos Islands
Photography

The Galápagos Islands were made famous for their finches. Yet, countless other bird species are either resident or endemic to the islands. Each of these species tells its own ecological story—like the flightless cormorant, which is such an adept swimmer that it has evolved wings incapable of flight, or the Galápagos hawk, the largest land predator in the islands capable of preying on adult marine iguanas. These photographs showcase a handful of the bird species resident to the Galápagos, many of which can be approached within mere meters given that they have no natural predators. They symbolize the ecological importance of the archipelago's avifauna (beyond its iconic finches) and the need to conserve these increasingly threatened species. Pictured here: Flightless cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi; vulnerable); Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis; vulnerable); Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis; least concern); Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis; least concern); Galápagos yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia aureola; least concern).

Kathy Galvin
Seagull
Photography

A seagull taking off from a buoy off Nantucket Sound.

Teodor Grosu
Teresa
Photography, 35 mm film

Meaning can be found in kindness. This is a photograph of the woman as much as it is of the pigeons she is feeding, and it felt nostalgic and a bit lonely to me. Her clothing matches the feathers of the birds, and her head is out of frame so we can’t see her expression (I shot this one from the hip as to not make her uncomfortable).

Teodor Grosu
The Triplets
Photography, 35 mm film

I like this photograph because of its surreal feeling. Even though it’s taken at the beach on a very hot day, it has a cold, blue-ish tint given by the developing process. Its central subjects are also a strange sight: a pair of swans and a woman standing next to each other on the shore, turned away from the sea, all captivated by something happening off-camera. In the background, a restaurant gives way to a cliff of a similar shape.

Bing Lin
Self-Reflection
Photography

An endangered grey-crowned crane examines itself in the mirror of a public bathroom in an aviary in the Taipei Zoo, Taiwan, while masked primates goof around in the background.

Bing Lin
Urban Starling
Photography

The European starling, while unwelcome in North America, exemplifies the ease with which one can take for granted the beauty of everyday things. This shot, taken on a pedestrian park bench in New York, reminds us to take stock of the ordinary little things that frequently pass us by.

Emma Mohrman
In search of an egret
Oil paint on Canvas

I have been thinking a lot about migration patterns and what it means to not be in one place for more than a few months and what it’s like to feel at home somewhere and also alone somewhere craving a nest or intimacy and I wanted this to encompass all of that. When I’m at home my dad is constantly talking about the birds he sees by where we live and this is inspired by that too.

David Ocampo
The World in an Eggshell
Video

The invention of The Eggchord was a product of two people – one obsessed with studying eggshell structure and the other with building new tools – plus a couple of beers and a Vinyl Tocadisco. Discussing how physical irregularities in the record are translated by a needle into electric pulses and finally into sounds, our minds naturally veered to the surface of the eggshell. In the Stoddard Lab, David is interested in the diversity and function of eggshell structures. In these tinamous eggs (A), he primarily used Microscopic images like Scanning Electron Microscopy (B, C) or Confocal Microscopy (D, E) to study their microstructures. The Eggchord transforms these structures into sound, providing a novel and fun way to demonstrate the diversity of possible eggshell structures and also to potentially expand our ways to explore the differences in the roughness of the eggshells of different species. What you hear in the video is the sound of a chicken egg, decomposed across frequencies and then combined to the full spectrum of sound produced by a single egg. This process also opens the way for imagination: what do you hear, in the song of the egg?

Irene Sha
chasing light
Poetry

As someone who walks the bird window collision route on Princeton's campus, I frequently encounter the unfortunate fate of birds that have collided with our windows during their difficult migrations. I remember the first time I documented a collision fatality--it was a hermit thrush and I was devastated by the fact that its arduous journey came to an end in front of a large glass pane, something that would have not existed when its ancestors were migrating hundreds of years ago. Through my words, I hope to express the melancholy of a life cut short and push for more positive change for bird safety in our society.

From Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
"Up to about 1 billion birds die from window strikes in the U.S. each year, according to a 2014 study. There are two main types of window collisions: daytime and nighttime. In daylight, birds crash into windows because they see reflections of vegetation or see through the glass to potted plants or vegetation on the other side. At night, nocturnal migrants (including most songbirds) crash because they fly into lighted windows."

Sahana Sundar
Birdproofing Windows
Video

This is a 30s looping animation I made a couple of years ago to share information about bird collisions with windows. The bird depicted is a stylized image of an American Robin.

Charlotte Ward
Contact Call
Watercolor and Ink

Astronomers usually build their telescopes in remote locations to avoid the human-made pollution that inhibits our ability to view the night sky. When we visit such isolated places to explore the distant Universe with those telescopes, we often get a chance to appreciate a relatively untouched ecosystem - and its avian inhabitants. Inspired by ‘The Great Silence’ by Ted Chiang, in which the author describes the contemplations of an endangered Puerto Rican parrot on the interstellar radio message sent out by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974, I decided to paint a few birds that one can find at radio telescopes in various parts of the world: an Australian Ringneck parrot at the ASKAP telescope near Geraldton, Western Australia; a Fork-tailed Sunbird at the FAST telescope in PingTang, China; and a Lilac-breasted Roller at the MeerKAT telescope in the Northern Cape of South Africa. I hope that as humans learn more about far off solar systems and distant galaxies, we also learn to better appreciate the precious and fragile beauty of our own world and the creatures who live in it.

Lilia Burtonpatel
Structured Color
Multimedia (yarn, pins, styrofoam, acrylic paint)

Description of ArtworkI wanted to create an artwork inspired by structural color, or the way that color is produced in bird feathers by the properties of their nano-structures. I decided to create a multi-color representation of a feather that layers different textures and colors of yarn wound around each other to create a nuanced representation of color, and that plays with the creation of organic shapes through straight lines. I painted different pins with colors according to what yarns wound around them, using the pin heads to add shine and trick the eye. My intention is that the piece is viewed differently depending on the angle of the viewer, just how some feathers change their appearance depending on the angle at which the viewer accepts the refracted light.

I also chose to make the base of the feather from styrofoam, both for ease of medium, and as a comment on how the materials we use can serve a dual function of raising awareness through art and harming the environment through pollution, in this case for sea birds like the albatross. An increasing number of albatross chicks are dying from being fed plastic by their parents, and this work comments on this duality of organic and artificial matter.

Shangxiao Cai
Chirp? Churp!
Embroidery

Budgerigar is a small parrot species native to Australia, and widely seen as a pet bird worldwide. This is an artwork to celebrate David's birthday and his cute budgie called Pippin, who, apparently, has an Australian accent. The artwork is made on a pillowcase, and the pictured portion measures around 6 inches.

Shangxiao Cai
Shorebird Researchers
Wool felt

A Spoon-billed Sandpiper in a Princeton PhD gown and a Red Knot in a Lund Master gown, celebrating a "couple" of "shorebird researchers" getting their degrees in September 2021. The artwork measures around 3 inches in height.

Sonja Francis
Why the Scarlet Ibis has long legs
Crochet

This piece is inspired by my childhood favourite Caribbean folktale of the same name written by Sonja Dumas '86. In the short story, fish and birds are not friends, except for a kind Swamp Fish and a Scarlet Ibis with very short legs. When the swamp fish gets tangled in the weeds after a storm, Papa Bois, the father and protector of the forest, helps the ibis search for her friend by making her legs grow long enough to walk through the water of the swamp. The Scarlet Ibis is one of Trinidad and Tobago's national birds. It is named for its brilliant red plumage caused by its diet of crustaceans, sole for the black tip of its wings. It is a gregarious species that lives and travels in flocks. I was fortunate enough to travel home to see these eye-catching birds in their natural habitat on a Caroni Swamp and Bird Sanctuary boat tour this year. Approximately 15,000 Scarlet Ibises returned to roost just before sunset, resulting in a magnificent mass of scarlet dots punctuating the trees surrounding the river. The work was created in mosaic crochet using 3 DK and light worsted cotton yarn. The pattern went through seven or so design iterations over the course of several months but took approximately two weeks to finish.

As part of your viewing experience of the piece, please find the 9-minute folk tale below:

Penelope Georges, Kathy Galvin, Lazarena Lazarova, Irene Sha, Sophie Skanchy
Em"bird"ery: A Collective Flock
Cotton floss on Aida canvas

These embroidered birds, a collective creation, honor our local birds and their dwindling numbers. With each stitch, we remember our interconnectedness with these birds and our shared responsibility to protect them.

Sakina Isadibir
Twin Tanager Totes
Relief print, fabric ink on cotton tote bag

Bird form loosely based on a Scarlet Tanager, carved into a rubber block. Printed in red and blue / black and green gradients.

Sahana Sundar
Crochet Chicken
Yarn

This is one of multiple small chickens I crocheted over the summer. I made these as practice so that I can crochet chickens as gifts for my bird-loving friends and family.

Jessenia Yupangui Yupa
A Bee Eater
Yarn

An Amigurumi African Little Bee Eater. I spent last spring semester studying abroad in Kenya and saw many animals. Part of one of my courses was learning to identify a subset of species; the African little bee-eater was one of the birds. I just learned how to crochet over the winter break, and while abroad, I crochet a penguin as my first project. When I returned home, I wanted to create a piece that would remind me of my wonderful experience abroad. I took inspiration from the wonderful colorful birds that were abundant in Kenya and the first amigurumi in a collection of African wildlife.