The feathers of a scissortail flycatcher emerge from a block of wood when Charles Wolfe gets busy carving birds at his garage-turned-studio in Fayetteville. There's an American Kestrel perched on a ...

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 ...

GAYLORD — Wood-carver Brian Hoxie said his skills as a painter are somewhat suspect, so he instead opts to wood burn the feathers and scales on the birds and fish he carves. Hoxie’s skill set at ...

Jennifer Felton is passionate about timelessly capturing birds and feathers in wood. A national award-winning artist, Jennifer Felton is passionate about carving and timelessly capturing birds and ...

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 ...

CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (WBAY) - A Waupaca County man has an incredible gift of transforming a piece of wood into a lifelike bird or animal. His detailed carvings have won first in class at national ...

Wood carving is somewhat of a lost art these days, but birds were often the subject of amazingly realistic carvings. The artistic and colorful patterns of the red-naped sapsucker make it appear like a ...

Eighty-one-year-old woodcarver and naturalist Bob Spear has birds on the brain and has since he started crafting them from wood in 1938. That s when the teen-ager, then living on a Colchester farm, ...

MANCHESTER - Harold Rosauer has carved 993 lifelike birds, taking up to 900 hours to finish one. He has carved 40,000 wooden bird feather pins, so lifelike you'd think a slight breeze could carry them ...

NEWMARKET — Since he retired 10 years ago, Chet Jablonski's Newmarket home has been full of beautiful birds. From the moment you walk into the house through glass doors, birds. First thing you?ll see ...